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  • Winged Warfare

    by William Avery Bishop ...
    William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War.He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war. He was an Air Marshal and a Victoria Cross recipient.One day in July 1915, Bishop saw an airplane land in a nearby field and then take off again; this ... Read more

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  • Winged warfare

    Hunting the Huns in the air

    by William Avery Bishop ...
    William Avery Bishop's Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air is a vivid First World War air memoir that chronicles the emergence of aerial combat from reconnaissance novelty into a deadly, glamorous new theater of war. Written in a brisk, direct, and highly personal style, the book combines adventure narrative, battlefield reportage, and patriotic testimony, offering readers both the thrill ... Read more

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  • Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air

    by William Avery Bishop ...
    It was the mud, I think, that made me take to flying. I had fully expected that going into battle would mean for me the saddle of a galloping charger, instead of the snug little cock-pit of a modern aeroplane. The mud, on a certain day in July 1915, changed my whole career in the war. We were in England. I had gone over as an officer of the Missisauga Horse, of Toronto, a cavalry detachment of the ... Read more

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    by James McCudden ...
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    The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . .James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique and gripping firsthand account, he brings to life some of aviation history's most dramatic episodes in ... Read more

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