The Sky Their Battlefield by Henshaw Air Casualties World War One

AVIATION/PLANES/AIRCRAFT/MILITARY AIRCRAFT /WORLD WAR  ONE & TWO/INTEREST

The Sky Their Battlefield

AIR FIGHTING AND THE COMPLETE LIST OF ALLIED AIR CASUALTIES FROM ENEMY ACTION IN THE FIRST WAR

by

HENSHAW

PUBLISHED ; GRUB STREET

 1st EDITION 1995

A milestone publication, this book provides  a definitive detailed listing and description  of over four years of continuous fighting  in the air in WWI, by assembling the  8000 casualties that the British and  Commonwealth, and American, air services  suffered. Every single day of the war has  been examined in every theatre and the  circumstances checked from every available  source. Both Allied and German sources  have been studied, resulting in thousands  of cross-links with, confirmation of and  changes to our previous knowledge of  the subject.  The book is chronological in structure  and the exhaustive listings are linked by  contextual passages and commentary which  describe air war and how it inter-reacted  with the fighting on the ground. Moreover,  every single combat and casualty for the  first 18 months of the war has been tracked  down, providing a completely new and  detailed picture of the air battle for 1914  and ’15, previously a much unresearched  area owing to scarcity of sources. Through-  out his work, the author has sought to a  considerable degree to assemble the viable  truth of events, and where there is a doubt  remaining he makes it clear to the reader.  Almost 11,000 airmen are fully indexed.  With over 150 photographs, many  published for the first time, and including  the first authoritative listing of combat  casualties to American air personnel in  WWI, this book is the closest anyone has  come to a complete picture and is a key /    reference on the first war in the air. ,

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Using this book

Glossary of terms and abbreviations

Part I THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918

Part II AMERICANS IN THE GREAT WAR 1916-1918

Section A: L’ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE 1916 — 1917

Section B: UNITED STATES AIR SERVICE AERO SQUADRONS 1918

Section C: AMERICANS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN CASUALTIES

WHILST SERVING WITH THE FRENCH AIR FORCE IN

1918 — ENTRY VIA THE LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS

Section D: AMERICANS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN CASUALTIES

WHILST SERVING WITH THE FRENCH AIR FORCE IN

1917-1918 — DIRECT ENTRY

Part III UNITED KINGDOM and HOME WATERS 1914-1918

Part IV ITALY and THE ADRIATIC 1917-1918

Part V THE DARDANELLES and THE TURKISH

COAST 1915-1918

Part VI MACEDONIA and THE AEGEAN 1916-1918

Part VII EGYPT and PALESTINE 1914-1918

Part VIII MESOPOTAMIA 1915-1918

Part IX EAST AFRICA 1914-1917

Part X THE NAME INDEX

Statistical Appendices

Appendix I: Losses on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Category,

Cause, and Nature of Operation

Appendix II: Losses on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Machine Type

Appendix III: Important AIR1 Files in the Public Record Office, Kew, relating to Air Casualties in the Great War

CONDITION  V GOOD ,

BINDING TIGHT .CLEAN INTERIOR

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