A personal account of air operations during the First World War, mainly on the Western Front. Against this background of technical development and innovation, the author recounts the exploits of the Royal Flying Corps airmen and of the French, German, Italian and American airforces. Richard Townsend Bickers has written 13 novels about the RFC under the pseudonym Richard Leslie, 22 novels about the RAF under his own name and a biography called "Ginger Lacey, Fighter Pilot", 1962.

The first great air war

BICKERS, Richard Townshend

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

The story of air operations during World War One, the formation and development of the Royal Flying Corps and the lives and experiences of the airmen who were its pioneers. The author was in the RAF for 20 years, and here covers both military history and the more human perspective.

The First Great Air War

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Summer of No Surrender

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Corgi Books

GINGER LACEY - FIGHTER PILOT

History

Europe

Corgi

Who shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than any other fighter pilot? Sgt. Pilot J. H. Lacey. Who shot down the Heinkel 111 which had just bombed Buckingham Palace? Ginger Lacey again. Yet Ginger Lacey was almost unknown outside the RAF because at that time the papers seldom referred to him by name and because his natural modesty made him shun the limelight. He went on to serve as an instructor work on airborne weapons development and command a famous fighter squadron in the Far East. Unorthodox autocratic in his command but resentful of unreasonable interference from those above him Ginger Lacey was a slim pale boyish-looking man with a fantastic gift for leadership sharp eyes bravery and an innate sense of timing. He died in 1989.

Ginger Lacey: Fighter Pilot

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Who shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than any other fighter pilot? Sgt. Pilot J. H. Lacey. Who shot down the Heinkel 111 which had just bombed Buckingham Palace? Ginger Lacey again. Yet Ginger Lacey was almost unknown outside the RAF because at that time the papers seldom referred to him by name and because his natural modesty made him shun the limelight. He went on to serve as an instructor work on airborne weapons development and command a famous fighter squadron in the Far East. Unorthodox autocratic in his command but resentful of unreasonable interference from those above him Ginger Lacey was a slim pale boyish-looking man with a fantastic gift for leadership sharp eyes bravery and an innate sense of timing. He died in 1989.

Ginger Lacey, Fighter Pilot (Battle of Britain)

Blandford Press

An analysis of the events leading up to the assault on Britain and the history, structure, and equipment of the British reveals the full story of the air war that shaped the future of the free world.

The Battle of Britain

Military

Smithmark Pub.

In the face of the massive publicity accorded to General Montgomery and his adversary, General Erwin Rommel, and bearing in mind the endless controversy that has raged over the dismissal by Mr Churchill of Generals Wavell and Auchinleck, it is easy to forget that the war in North Africa would have run a very different course had it not been for the part played by the Royal Air Force. During those long months when the men on the ground went back and forth across the desert in a dizzying succession of triumphs and reverses the men of the Royal Air Force, often woefully underequipped, struggled valiantly to deep possession of the skies under which the troops were fighting. Richard Bickers, author of several books on the history of the aerial warfare, saw the war in North Africa and Italy from both the ground and the air, and uses his own experiences, interwoven with the recollections of numerous contemporaries, to create a vivid picture of what it was like to fly, to fight and to control operations over the desert at that time. He also gives the usually ignored ground crews the full measure of the recognition due to them - ground gunners, armourers, motor transport drivers and others.

The Desert Air War 1939-1945

Leo Cooper

The Hawker Typhoon became the epitome of ground-attack aircraft in World War II. During the invasion of Europe it was used to great effect as the Allied troops advanced from the English Channel to Berlin. This is a collection of first-hand accounts from operational pilots of the Hawker Typhoon.

Hawker Typhoon: The Combat History

Airlife Pub Ltd

The first military air drops were initiated by a critical ground situation at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Twenty ssupply sorties were flown on 14 April 1916 dropping 3500lbs of food to the beleaguered troops. Between the wars air transport was to be developed as a main method of supply and support to the major nation’s empires and colonies. During World War II aircraft were not only used as a suppy method but as a strike weapon, carrying paratroops and their equipment . These aircraft also towed another strike transport aircraft – the glider.

Airlift: Military Air Transport - The Illustrated History

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