29,548
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→In the Air
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicairmenthei00walt/page/n7 ''Heroic Airmen and their Exploits''] by E W Walters 1917 Archive.org
* ''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://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/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/overgermanlines/page/n9/mode/2up ''Over the German Lines and other sketches illustrating the life and work of an Artillery Squadron of the R.A.F. in France''] by "Wings" (Captain, RAF) (possibly Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders). The principal duty of an Artillery Squadron was the direction of artillery fire by “wireless” from the air. Archive.org. Sanders served with No. 5 Squadron RFC, where he lost one arm due to wounds.
*[https://archive.org/details/outwittinghunmye00obriuoft/page/n9 ''Outwitting the Hun : my Escape from a German Prison Camp''] by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/outwitting_the_hun_1304_librivox LibriVox audio version] Archive.org. The author was an American who had initially joined a group training in Canada as Royal Flying Corps officers.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820202/page/n9/mode/2up ''The American Spirit; Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps''] 1918 Archive.org. Most of the letters cover his time in training, in Canada from August 1917, and England from January 1918. He arrived in France 1 March 1918 and died soon afterwards 14 March 1918.
