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E-book
Author O'Connor, Mike

Title Airfields & Airmen : Somme
Published Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Series Battleground
Battleground Europe.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction by Series Editor; Acknowledgements; Author's Introduction; How the Guide works; Table of Maps; The Development of Military Flying; An Explanation of German ranks; Abbreviations; The Order of Battle of the RFC 4 Brigade 1 July 1916; Chapter One The Northern Area; Chapter Two The Southern Area; Chapter Three The Eastern Area; Conclusion; Further Reading; Selective Index
Summary The latest volume in the Airfields and Airmen series covers the Arras area. It includes a visit to the grave of Albert Ball VC and the graves of Waterfall and Bayly, the first British fliers killed in action. There is a visit to the aerodrome from which Alan McLeod took off from to earn his VC and to the grave of Viscount Glentworth, killed while flying with 32 Squadron. The German side is well covered with visits to their cemeteries and aerodromes. This well researched book relives the deadly thrills of war in the air over the battlefields of the Western Front
Notes Print version record
Subject Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps fast
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France -- Somme -- Guidebooks
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations.
Battlefields -- France -- Somme -- Guidebooks
Airmen -- Biography
HISTORY / Military / World War I.
Airmen
Battlefields
Military operations, Aerial
France -- Somme
Genre/Form Biographies
Guidebooks
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783832439
1783832436