Marked for Death (48 page)

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(London, 1967)

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(VDM, 2001)

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Weapons and Warfare, Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918
(
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The Rotary Aero Engine
(London, HMSO, 1987)

Neumann, Georg Paul, ed.,
The German Air Force in the Great War
(London, 1920)

‘Night-Hawk M.C’ [W. J. Harvey],
Rovers of the Night Sky
(London, 1919, Naval & Military Press reprint
n.d.
)

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Falcons of France
(Bantam, 1966)

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British Aviation: The Great War & Armistice 1915
–1919
(Putnam, 1969)

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Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air
(Smithsonian, Washington, 1992)

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Spatial Disorientation in Aviation
(American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, vol. 203, 2004)

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www.billybishop.net/bishopP.html

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They Fought for the Sky
(Pan, 1960)

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The Lancet
, 28 September 1918

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Collected Poems
(Faber, 1947)

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The Military Surgeon
, vol. 42, 1918

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Slide Rule
(House of Stratus, 2000)

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–1916
(Frank Cass, 2012)

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The Aeronautical Journal
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Wings of War
(London, 1933)

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Twentieth Century Maverick
(Bank House, 2004)

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Recollections of an Airman
(Greenhill Books, 1989)

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German and Austro-Hungarian Aircraft Manufacturers 1908-1918
(Amberley, 2010)

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Farnborough: The Story of RAE
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Guide to Flying
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(HMSO, 1922)

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Winning his Wings
(Blackie, 1919)

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Early Aircraft Armament
(Arms & Armour Press, 1989)

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Letters from a Flying Officer
(Alan Sutton, 1982)

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Winged Victory
(Grub Street, 2010)

Introduction

1
    Source: Henshaw, Trevor:
The Sky their Battlefield

2
    For these statistics see Pisano
et al.
,
Legend, Memory and the Great War
, p.75

3
    Johns W. E.
Popular Flying
, June 1936

4
    Johns W. E., ‘The White Fokker’,
The Camels are Coming
. The paragraph quoted here differs very slightly (but interestingly) from the original version that appeared in the April 1932 number of
Popular Flying
under Johns’s pen-name, William Earle.

5
    Ellis P. B. & Williams P.,
By Jove, Biggles!
, p.178

6
    Hyde, Andrew P.,
The First Blitz
, p.16

7
    Clark, Alan,
Aces High
, p.14

Chapter 1

8
    Dangerfield, George,
The Strange Death of Liberal England
, pp.249–50

9
    
ibid
, p.226

10
   Turnill, Reginald & Reed, Arthur,
Farnborough: The Story of RAE
, p.41

11
   Grinnell-Milne, D. W.,
Wind in the Wires
, quoted in Bruce, J. M.,
British Aeroplanes 1914
–1918
, p.378

12
   Stoney, Barbara,
Twentieth Century Maverick
, p.57

13
   
ibid,
p.230

14
   Clark, Alan,
Aces High
, pp.113–14

15
   Murphy, Justin D.,
Weapons and Warfare, Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918
, pp.90–1

16
   Hanson, Neil,
First Blitz
, p.232

17
   Stoney,
Twentieth Century Maverick
, p.109

18
   Murphy,
Weapons and Warfare
, p.91

19
   Malcolm Cooper gives 22,000 aircraft and 300,000 personnel for 1918, but by then the RAF was expanding rapidly and the date of the statistics is significant. See Cooper, Malcolm,
The Birth of Independent Air Power
, p.xv

Chapter 2

20
   Strange, Louis A.,
Recollections of an Airman
, pp.21–2 (with some editorial shortening)

21
   Shute, Nevil,
Slide Rule
, pp.35–6

22
   Turnill & Reed,
Farnborough
, p.31

23
   Fokker, Anthony & Gould, Bruce,
Flying Dutchman
, p.49

24
   See Berriman, A. E., ‘Parke’s Dive’,
Flight
, 31st August 1912, pp.787–789

25
   Hadley, Dunstan,
Only Seconds to Live
, p.67

26
   Lewis, Cecil,
Sagittarius Rising
, p.41

27
   See Barnett, Correlli,
The Collapse of British Power
, p.86

28
   Johnstone, E. G., in
Naval Eight: A History of No. 8 Squadron RNAS
, pp.115–16

29
   See
www.3squadron.org.au/subpages/RE8.htm

30
   Statistics from Henshaw, Trevor:
The Sky their Battlefield
, p.576

31
   Quoted in Kilduff, Peter,
Black Fokker Leader
, p.72

32
   Yeates, V. M.,
Winged Victory
, p.25

33
   Bruce,
British Aeroplanes 1914
–1918
, p.574

34
   See John Thompson of Northern Aeroplane Workshops
www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/05/09/sopwith_camel_batley_feature.shtml

Chapter 3

35
   Quoted in Hughes-Hallett, L.,
The Pike
, p.380

36
   Published in the September 1909 issue of the periodical
The Nineteenth Century and After

37
   Veale, S. E.,
Guide to Flying
, p.3

38
   Quoted in Turnill & Reed,
Farnborough
, p.40

39
   Neumann, Georg Paul,
The German Air Force in the Great War
, p.54

40
   See Kulikov, Victor,
Russian Aces of World War I
, p.8

41
   Strange,
Recollections of an Airman
, p.218

42
   See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieseler_Fi_156
.

43
   Strange
, op. cit
., pp.112–14 (lightly edited)

44
   Woodman, Harry,
Early Aircraft Armament
, p.171

45
   Lee, Arthur Gould,
No Parachute
, p.123

46
   Quoted in Reynolds, Quentin,
They Fought for the Sky
, p.18

Chapter 4

47
   Compston, R. J. O., in
Naval Eight
, pp.95–6

48
   Lewis,
Sagittarius Rising
, pp.140-1

49
   See Barnett, Correlli,
The Collapse of British Power
, p.112

50
   Lee,
No Parachute
, p.84

51
   Lewis,
op. cit
., p.96

52
   Lewis,
ibid
, p.114

53
   Neumann,
The German Air Force in the Great War
, p.195

54
   Lee, Gould, Arthur,
Open Cockpit
, p.168

55
   
ibid
,
p.169

56
   Johns, W. E.,
The Modern Boy
, 5th December 1931

57
   Wortley, Rothesay Stuart, diary entry for 25th January 1915,
Letters from a Flying Officer
, p.46

58
   Neumann,
The German Air Force
, p.243

59
   Cameron, Ian,
Wings of the Morning
, p.150

60
   ‘Night-Hawk M.C’ [W. J. Harvey],
Rovers of the Night Sky
, pp.17–18

61
   Jones, H.,
The War in the Air, Vol. III
p.42; quoted in Kilduff, Peter,
Billy Bishop VC
, p.51

62
   Ellis P. B. & Williams P.,
By Jove, Biggles!
, pp.70–1

63
   
ibid
. (quoting Johns, W. E., in
Popular Flying
,
May 1932)

64
   Ellis & Williams
,
op. cit
., p.69 (quoting Johns in
Popular Flying
, May 1935)

65
   Lee,
Open Cockpit
, p.38

66
   Draper, Major C., in
Naval Eight
, p.62. The dead pilot’s name was C. R. Walworth, the date of his death 18th February 1918.

Chapter 5

67
   Quoted in Pisano
et al.
,
Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air
, p.79

68
   Hanson,
First Blitz
, p.58

69
   Quoted in Nahum, Andrew,
The Rotary Aero Engine
, p.22

70
   Fokker & Gould,
Flying Dutchman
, p.62

71
   Yeates,
Winged Victory
, p.84

72
   Lee,
Open Cockpit
, pp.23–4

73
   Ellis & Williams,
By Jove, Biggles!
, p.34

74
   War Office,
Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire in the Great War

75
   Clark,
Aces High
, p.77

76
   Rippon, T. S. & Manuel, E. G., ‘Report on the Essential Characteristics of Successful and Unsuccessful Aviators’,
The Lancet
, 28th September 1918.

77
   Wortley,
Letters from a Flying Officer
, p.165

78
   Ellis & Williams,
By Jove, Biggles!
, p.34

79
   Lee, Arthur Gould,
No Parachute
, p.23

80
   Grider, John MacGavock,
War Birds
, pp.51
et seq
.

81
   Bruce,
British Aeroplanes
, p.191

82
   Ellis & Williams,
By Jove, Biggles!
, p.40

83
   Quoted in Barker, Ralph,
The Royal Flying Corps in World War I
, p.27

84
   Quoted in Penrose, Harald,
British Aviation. The Great War & Armistice
, p.213

85
   Maclennan, Roderick Ward,
The Ideals and Training of a Flying Officer
, p.12

86
   
ibid
, p.77

87
   
ibid
, p.93

88
   Yeates,
Winged Victory
, p.273

89
   De Havilland, Geoffrey,
Sky Fever
, p.65

90
   Strange,
Recollections of an Airman
, p.158

Chapter 6

91
   Lee,
Open Cockpit
, pp.57–8

92
   Stark, Rudolf,
Wings of War
, p.78

93
   Mattioli, Guido,
Mussolini aviatore e la sua opera per l’aviazione
, p.22

94
   Sassoon, Siegfried, ‘The Child at the Window’,
Collected Poems

95
   Wortley,
Letters from a Flying Officer
, p.83

96
   Oberleutnant Dyckhoff, in Neumann,
German Air Force
, p.423