Description
World War /Two/Aviation/ RAF/Military/interest
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
COVERED IN REMOVABLE MYLAR JACKET
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