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*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''], by James Thomas Byford McCudden [1919]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America. [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=Wisc:89100003748 Google Books], same viewing conditions. There was a 1930 reprint under the title ''Flying Fury'' and still later reprints as ''Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''.
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:[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/asoldiersky00campgoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Soldier of the Sky''] by Captain George F Campbell, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440235 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[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/cihm_98187 ''The Royal Flying Corps in the War''] by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.
*[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/flyingfuryfiveye0000mccu ''Flying Fury : Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James McCudden VC, 2000 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is a reprint, with some extra content, of ''Flying Fury'' 1930, which in turn was a reprint, with some extra content of ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps'' 1918. The [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 1918 edition] is available HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America, and also [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=Wisc:89100003748 Google Books], same viewing conditions.
*[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. 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/redknightofgerma00gibb ''The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird''] by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the ''Chicago Tribune''. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/bombingbruges00bewsgoog/page/n14 ''The Bombing of Bruges''] by Paul Bewsher, Captain, RAF 1918 Archive.org. A collection of short poems reprinted in part from the ''Graphic'' and the ''Weekly Dispatch''.
*[https://archive.org/details/nightbombingwith00reec/page/n7 ''Night Bombing with the Bedouins''] by Robert H Reece Lieut RAF 1919. Archive.org. The Bedouin Squadron, so called because as a unit it was constantly moved from place to place, was formed in September 1917 as part of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[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
*''New England Aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records'' edited by Caroline Ticknor. [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick/page/n7 Volume I] 1919, [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick/page/iii Volume II] 1920 Archive.org
