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====In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II] (including Gallipoli), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III] (inc East Africa), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] (inc Egypt/Palestine, Mesopotamia, Macedonia), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] (inc Palestine, Mesopotamia, India) Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
: There is also Volume VII ''Appendices'' which is appears to be included in the online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19D4-PNLxP ''The War in the Air''] which appears to consist of all seven volumes, (located in Military Books/Britain). Volume VII is also available to those with suitable University access Search on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440546 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541482.0x000002 ''The Work and Training of the Royal Flying Corps''. [With illustrations<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Published by authority of the Royal Flying Corps [1918]. British Library Digital collection. The images are rotatable.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556809.0x000002 ''Royal Flying Corps ... Military Wing. Casualties and Honours during the war of 1914-17'']. Compiled by Captain G. L. Campbell ... assisted by R. H. Blinkhorn. 1917. British Library Digital collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalproblemso00mediuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The medical problems of flying, including reports nos. 1-7 of the Air Medical Investigation Committee''] Report 53 of the Medical Research Council (Great Britain) HMSO 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aviationinpeacew00sykerich/page/n5 ''Aviation in Peace and War''] by Major-General Sir F H Sykes, late Chief of the Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil Aviation 1922 Archive.org. He was also the author of ''From Many Angles; an Autobiography'', by Major-General the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes 1942. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sykes Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/earlybird00moor/mode/2up ''Early Bird''] by Major W G Moore 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a Naval airman during WW1, who flew from the Navy's first Aircraft Carrier, 'Furious'. He also took part in the East African Campaign.
* Also see [[Western Front#In the Air|Western Front-Historical books online-In the Air]]
