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Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan on the role of observers over the Western Front during ‘War One’ (sic)
Fig. 1. Shooting the Front. Terry Finnegan gave a presentation based on his book ‘Shooting the Front’ to an audience, largely of Friends of the Imperial War Museum at the IWM on Wednesday… more →
That's Nothing Compared to Passchendaele
The Rise of Fight: How the Royal Air Force owes its existence to science fiction, idealistic thought and newspaper scare-mongering
wrote 1 week ago: I – The Heroic Airman On the 29th of October 1917 the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, st … more →
J C F Hopkins Royal Flying Corps
wrote 1 week ago: You can now listen to J C F Hopkins’ memories of being a night flyer in the Royal Flying Corps … more →
May 1917
wrote 2 weeks ago: Battalion headquarters for May 1917 were at Ytres, but the various companies and platoons might be d … more →
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse
wrote 2 weeks ago: Pilot Assignments Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Royal Aircraft Factory (? To Mar-1915) No. 2 Squadron (Ma … more →
The "Red Baron" Scores Two Victories, 1917
wrote 2 weeks ago: With 80 confirmed kills, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was World War One’s highest scoring comb … more →
The Beginning of Air Warfare, 1914
wrote 2 weeks ago: As the combatants clashed in the opening days of World War I, the newly invented airplane provided e … more →
SH Quicke fought the Red Baron
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wrote 1 month ago: Manfred von Richthofen was credited with the most ‘victories’ of any Great War fighter ace, bringing … more →
Acquisitions - Churchill and..
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wrote 1 month ago: I recently added two books to library that both deal with Churchill’s relationship with the mi … more →
John Henry Dollittle, aviation enthusiast
wrote 1 month ago: The brave works that people undertook and were honoured for in the Great War varied enormously, even … more →
Cavalry of the Clouds Documentary (1987)
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wrote 1 month ago: Sometimes listening to YouTube while writing has its advantages. I have just come across the followi … more →
100 Yards of Hell
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wrote 1 month ago: Canadian machine gunners dig themselves in, in shell holes on Vimy Ridge. This shows squads of machi … more →
The delusions of Walter Biheller
wrote 1 month ago: In January 1918, a British flying officer turned up in the Hague, telling an unbelievable story: tha … more →
The birth of the Royal Air Force
wrote 1 month ago: Ninety-five years ago today, Britain acquired a new armed force with the creation of the Royal Air F … more →
Martin O'Connor
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wrote 1 month ago: Martin O’Connor Martin O’Connor (1888 – 1921) joined the Royal Flying Corps in Sep … more →
A Famous Warbird Of Great War Vintage.
wrote 2 months ago: Major William Barker’s Sopwith Camel. … more →
Knights of the Sky - Wings Over Wairarapa 2013
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wrote 3 months ago: The Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 air show in Masterton, New Zealand featured many spectacular flying di … more →
New exhibition to mark 100 years of the Montrose Air Station
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wrote 3 months ago: On 26 February, 1913, The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) set up its first air station, at Montrose. A spec … more →
Chapter Twenty ~ Home Defence
wrote 3 months ago: It was quiet in Cinderford, so many men had gone to die in the mud of Flanders. Others lived on but … more →
WWI flying ace’s sons donate his medal to nation
wrote 3 months ago: By Liz Day THE sons of a Cardiff pilot who completed 72 night bombing missions over the Western Fron … more →
