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*[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
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* ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air'' by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish/page/n7 London edition 1918, probably better filmed text] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare00bishuoft/page/n7 USA edition 1918, better photographs], some photographs differ between the two editions;
:[https://archive.org/details/wingwarfare00bish/page/n3 1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare0000bish/page/n3 2002 edition with additional material] the latter two Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/164 n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & air battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the teeth of the wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
