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*[https://archive.org/details/airservicemedica00unit ''Air Service Medical Manual''] by [USA] War Department: Air Service. Division of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C 1918. Archive.org. With many photographs.
*[https://archive.org/details/aviatorsfieldboo00blrich ''An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916'']. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: ''The Red Air Fighter''.(1918) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24572 ''Der Rote Kampfflieger''] 1917 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/DerRoteKampfflieger/page/n7 1917 reprint German edition] Archive.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff ''The Red Baron''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenballsadvent00bewsrich ''"Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber''] by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org
*[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/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.
*Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Despatch Riders====
*[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated that editions after the first edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition was published in 1915, it may be the original edition.
