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Author : Alan John Lance Scott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. written by Alan John Lance Scott and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. J. L. Scott
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ISBN 13 : 9781534759688
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron: R. A. F. written by A. J. L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty Squadron: R.A.F. is the story of Squadron No.60 in the Royal Flying Corps, later known as the Royal Air Force.
Author : George H. Doran Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010454236
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron, R.A.F.; A History of the Squadron From Its Formation written by George H. Doran Company and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alan John Lance Scott
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Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. written by Alan John Lance Scott and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott
Publisher : GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book Sixty Squadron R.A.F. written by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott and published by GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook This book tells the story of Squadron No. 60 of the Royal Flying Corps, afterwards of the Royal Air Force. When the war began, in August 1914, the Royal Flying Corps was a very small body which sent four squadrons on active service and had a rudimentary training organisation at home. In those days the only functions contemplated for an airman were reconnaissance and occasionally bombing. Fighting in the air was almost unknown. The aeroplanes were just flying machines of different types, but intended to perform substantially the same functions. Gradually as the war continued specialisation developed. Fighting in the air began, machine guns being mounted for the purpose in the aeroplanes. Then some aeroplanes were designed particularly for reconnaissance, some particularly for fighting, some for bombing, and so on. It was in the early part of this period of specialisation that Squadron No. 60 was embodied. And, as this narrative tells us, its main work was fighting in the air. It was equipped for the most part with aeroplanes which were called scouts—not very felicitously, since a scout suggests rather reconnaissance than combat. These machines carried only one man, were fast, easy to manœuvre, and quick in responding to control. They were armed with one or two machine guns, and they engaged in a form of warfare new in the history of the world, and the most thrilling that can be imagined—for each man fought with his own hand, trusting wholly to his own skill, and that not on his own element, but in outrage of nature, high in the air, surrounded only by the winds and clouds. The embodiment of the fighting scout squadrons was part of the expansion and organisation of what became the Royal Air Force. Among all the achievements of the war there has been, perhaps, nothing more wonderful than the development of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, and their amalgamation in the great Royal Air Force which fought through the last year of the war. When the war opened, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were bodies of few units, ancillary to the Army and the Navy, of which the control was in the hands of the Army Council and the Board of Admiralty. It was not realised that warfare in the air was a new and distinct type of warfare. Generals who would have laughed at the idea of commanding a fleet, Admirals who would have shrunk from the leadership of an army corps, were quite unconscious of their unfitness to deal with the problems of aerial war. Every step, therefore, of the organisation and expansion of the flying services had to be conducted under the final control of bodies, kindly and sympathetic indeed, but necessarily ignorant. That the Royal Flying Corps attained to its famous efficiency and was expanded more than a hundredfold should earn unforgetting praise for those who were responsible for leading and developing it. The country owes a great debt, which has not, perhaps, been sufficiently recognised, to Sir David Henderson, whose rare gifts of quick intelligence and ready resource must have been taxed to the utmost in his dual position as head of the Flying Corps and member of the Army Council; to Sir Sefton Brancker, who worked under him in the War Office; and to Sir Hugh Trenchard, who, from the date that Sir David Henderson came back from France to that of the amalgamation of the flying services in the Royal Air Force, was in command in France. It was the administrative skill of these distinguished men that stood behind the work of the squadrons and made possible their fighting or bombing or reconnaissance. And this background of administrative skill and resource must not be forgotten or suffered to be quite outshone by the brilliant gallantry of the pilots and observers. To be continue in this ebook
Author : A.J.L. Scott
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612003850
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron RAF written by A.J.L. Scott and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This candid WWI memoir takes readers inside the cockpit with an RAF officer on the Western Front from the outbreak the Great War until its end in 1918. Louis Arbon Strange was at the Royal Air Force’s Central Flying School when war broke out in 1914. He immediately reported to Royal Flying Corps headquarters and joined No.5 Squadron. Strage remained on active duty throughout the war, serving his country over the Western Front from August of that year until the enemy’s surrender. Strange transferred to No.6 Squadron in 1915 and went on to form and command No.23 Squadron. Due to illness, he did not accompany his Squadron to France, but spent that time training others. He took charge of the Machine-Gun School at Hythe and other schools of aerial gunnery before returning to the Front. There he commanded the 23rd Wing, and finally took command of the 80th Wing from June 1918 until the end of the war. As Strange chronicles his experiences, he provides unique insight into how and why the Allied airmen eventually prevailed.
Author : George H Doran Company
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781297465666
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron, R.A.F.; A History of the Squadron from Its Formation - Scholar's Choice Edition written by George H Doran Company and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : A J L Scott M C
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530510290
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron R.a.f. written by A J L Scott M C and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 60 (Reserve) Squadron of the Royal Air Force was formed in 1916 at Gosport. It is currently part of the Defence Helicopter Flying School based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. The Squadron crest is a markhor's head and was approved by King George VI in December 1937. Chosen to commemorate many years of service in North-West India, the markhor being a mountain goat frequenting the Khyber Pass. The horns of a markhor were presented to the Squadron in 1964. The Squadron motto is Per ardua ad aethera tendo - 'I strive through difficulties to the sky'. Formed at Gosport on 30 April 1916, barely a month had passed before the unit and its Morane-Saulnier N's were despatched to France. The squadron's initial pilot officers included Harold Balfour and Peter Portal, later Under-Secretary for Air and Chief of the Air Staff respectively, while Robert Smith-Barry, later to revolutionise British pilot training, was a flight commander and (from July to December 1916), the squadron's commanding officer. After suffering heavy losses during the Battle of the Somme, the Squadron re-equipped with Nieuport Scouts and soon acquired a first-class reputation for itself. On 2 June 1917, Captain WA "Billy" Bishop received the Victoria Cross for his solo attack on a German aerodrome destroying three enemy aircraft in the air and several 'probables' on the ground before returning unhurt in a badly damaged aircraft. A month later, S.E.5 fighters arrived and these remained with the Squadron until it was disbanded on 22 January 1920. The squadron claimed 320 aerial victories. Twenty-six flying aces served in the squadron during the war; notable among them were: Albert Ball - Victoria Cross winner Alexander Beck James Belgrave Alan Duncan Bell-Irving William Avery Bishop- Canadian Victoria Cross winner Keith Caldwell - future Air Commodore Robert L. Chidlaw-Roberts John Doyle Art Duncan Gordon Duncan William M. Fry John Griffith Harold A. Hamersley H. George Hegarty Spencer B. Horn William Molesworth Sydney Pope John William Rayner Alfred William Saunders Alan Scott Frank O. Soden Robert Kenneth Whitney
Author : A. J. L. Scott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331340683
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron R. A. F written by A. J. L. Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sixty Squadron R. A. F: A History of the Squadron, From Its Formation This book tells the story of Squadron No. 60 of the Royal Flying Corps, afterwards of the Royal Air Force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : A. J. L. Scott
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ISBN 13 : 9781843425731
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron written by A. J. L. Scott and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nail-bitingly exciting narrative, this is the history of a specialist RFC Scout squadron formed in in 1916. which served above the western front in the battles of the Somme, Arras, third Ypres (Passchendaele) and the German offensives in March 1918, when it became Sixty Squadron of the new RAF. Although there is a full discussion of technical problems, a glossary of technical terms and a guide to the aircraft with which the Squadron was equipped, the main aim of the book is telling the thrilling story of air combat against the formidable German enemy. As Lord Hugh Cecil writes in his vivid Preface: Many people feel apprehensive at flying at all....but to fly and fight, to sit alone in an aeroplane thousands of feet above the ground, to catch sight of an enemy, to go to attack him, flying faster than an express train moves, to venture near as may be dared, knowing that the slightest collision will cast both helpless to the ground, to dodge and dive and turn and spin, to hide in clouds or in the dazzle of the sun, to fire a machine gun while not losing mastery of the control and rudder of one s own aeroplane, to notice the enemy s bullets striking here and there on one s machine, and know that if a bullet hits the engine it means either death or a precarious landing and captivity, and if a bullet hits the petrol tank it means being burned alive in the air, and yet to fight on and, escaping, to go forth afresh next day - surely to read of this is to realise with new and penetrating force the stupendous measure of what human skill can do and human courage dare . Illustrated with 21 photographs and pictures; and two maps, and accompanied by two appendices listing officers who served in the squadron and their fates, this is a book that no-one remotely interested in the Great War in the air will want to be without.
Author : A. J. L. Scott
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ISBN 13 : 9781533212511
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Sixty Squadron, R. A. F. written by A. J. L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 1915, the Germans began producing the Fokker monoplane and in the following months would prove themselves a nuisance for the artillery observation machines. As a result, General Trenchard decided to form some new scout squadrons to counter the new threat: one of them was No. 60 Squadron. Formed from No. 1 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron and organised in April 1916, No. 60 Squadron would be in France within a month, equipped with the French Morane Type N. Following the Somme campaign, No. 60 Squadron re-equipped with the Nieuport Scout; they went on to participate at Arras, Passchendaele and in the March 1918 offensive. By war's end the squadron's members had been awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Orders, 1 Bar to DSO, 37 Military Crosses and 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and claimed over three hundred aerial victories. 'Sixty Squadron R.A.F.' is a classic squadron history of World War I. Group Captain A. J. L. Scott C.B. M.C. A.F.C. (1884-1922) was a New Zealand-born officer in the Royal Flying Corps, and subsequently the Royal Air Force. Originally an officer in the Sussex Yeomanry, he transferred to the R.F.C., becoming a flight commander with No. 43 Squadron, commander of No. 60 Squadron and later commandant of the Central Flying School. He was noted for being Winston Churchill's flying instructor. Albion Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
Author : Joe Gleeson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Irish Aces of the RFC and the RAF in the First World War written by Joe Gleeson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War had an enormous impact on Ireland. Over 240,000 Irish men and women volunteered to serve with the Allied forces, suffering almost 40,000 casualties. The Irish contribution to the air war remains overlooked, not just in Ireland, but also by historians generally. Although just 6,000 Irish served with the Allied flying services at a cost of 500 casualties, their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers. The contribution of Irish aces of the RFC and RAF to the Allied cause was enormous, just over thirty of whom accounted for 400 enemy aircraft. Irishmen such as Mannock, McElroy and Hazell were among the highest-scoring pilots of the war. Some were revered by their men, others were controversial figures – reckless with their own lives and those under their command – but many of their stories remain untold. This book seeks to restore all those who were written out of Irish history, while also providing for their achievements to be considered in the overall context of the first air war. Illustrations: 24 black-and-white photographs
Author : C. G. Jefford
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781840371413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)
Download or read book RAF Squadrons written by C. G. Jefford and published by Airlife Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference records the historical details of the RAF's basic fighting formations - its squadrons. 12 appendices serve as a reference point, with two of them, one keyed by aircraft type, the other by location, providing cross-references to the listing of each squadron's movements and equipment.
Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493027018
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told written by Tom McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroism and valor in the sky! * A new title in the relaunch of our successful Greatest Stories Ever Told franchise. * Air combat has captured the imaginations of people since the fighter plane was first introduced during WWI. * Stories of aces such as Eddy Rickenbacker and Captain Baron Manfred Von Richthofen have become staples of books and movies as well as the stuff of legend. In The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest tales of heroism and valor in the skies over the battlefield! It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, Len Deighton, Jay A. Stout, and many others. It includes tales of legendary aces from the Great War up through the present day, and is the newest title in the series that includes: *The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told *The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told *The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told *The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
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Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Bush
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526742233
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Lionel Morris and the Red Baron written by Jill Bush and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the young, London-born, World War I pilot who was the first to be shot down by the legendary Red Baron. Nineteen-year-old Lionel Morris left the infantry for the wood and wires of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front in 1916, joining one of the world’s first fighter units alongside the great ace Albert Ball. Learning on the job, in dangerously unpredictable machines, Morris came of age as a combat pilot on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, as the R.F.C. was winning a bloody struggle for admiralty of the air. As summer faded to autumn and the skies over Bapaume filled with increasing numbers of enemy aircraft, the tide turned. On 17 September 1916, Morris’s squadron was attacked by a lethally efficient German unit, including an unknown pilot called Manfred von Richthofen. As the shock waves spread from the empty hangars of No.11 Squadron all the way to the very top of the British Army, the circumstances surrounding Morris’s death marked a pivotal shift in the aerial war, and the birth of its greatest legend. Told through previously unpublished archive material, the words of contemporaries, and official records, Lionel Morris and the Red Baron traces a short but extraordinary life and reveals how Morris’s role in history was rediscovered one hundred years after his death. Praise for Lionel Morris and the Red Baron “The best written World War I aviation history account this reviewer has read in some time . . . has earned the highest recommendation.” —Over the Front “This is a book that deserves to be read.” —The Aviation Historian
Author : Paul Hickley
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ISBN 13 : 9781526201645
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Holding to the Heavens written by Paul Hickley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
