Winged Warfare

Name: Winged Warfare
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ISBN: 9780002116190

ISBN-10: 0002116197

ISBN-13: 9780002116190

Edition: 1976

Authors: William Avery Bishop

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An ace over the Western Front-in his own wordsThe Canadian author of this book, William Bishop, volunteered for imperial service as a cavalryman as the Great War called its colonial men to the colours. A brief encounter with aircraft-the cavalry of the clouds-and a prolonged encounter with mud persuaded him that his war should instead be fought in the skies with the RFC. Bishop flew first as an observer and eventually, on winning his double wings, as the pilot of a 'scout'-the famous early fighter aircraft of the pioneering 'dogfight days' of aerial combat. Most of us know that the lives of pilots over the Western Front were perilously short, but Bishop had found his vocation and he began…