Royal Flying Corps (Images of War Series)

This book contains selected images from three different Royal Flying Corps albums. Photographs include training in Canada and at Tangmere. There is a large variety of different aircraft featured, as well as images of pilots and officers. Also included are a number of photographs from the collection of the late Lieutenant William Shorter, who was shot down over German lines in 1918 at the age of twenty. ILLUSTRATIONS 120 b/w SELLING POINTS: Outstanding vintage photographs of the earliest British military aircraft and personnel Show many different aspects of life in the formative period of British military aviation Unique unpublished wartime photographs of Britain’s earliest combat aircraft