Flying Fury Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps Illustrated Edition
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Flying Fury Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps Illustrated Edition
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden VC DSO & Ba, MC & Bar MM
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-13
Flying Fury Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps Illustrated Edition written by James Thomas Byford McCudden VC DSO & Ba, MC & Bar MM and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with History categories.
Illustrated Edition – contains 30 photos The highest scoring British Air Ace reveals his daily life at the front, in the air and in combat with the Germans above the Western Front. In the muddy trenches of the Western front few rankers would have considered that they would achieve field rank of major and international celebrity. In the skies above the shell-torn landscape, any man with enough talent, daring and skill could hope to become a ‘Flying Ace’ by claiming five or more victories over enemy aviators. Such an adventurous warrior was James McCudden; born in 1895 in Kent, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1910 as soon as he could. But he was smitten with the service in the air after a flight in his brothers plane in 1913 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. However he was only an engineer in 1914, but once in France despite his modest rank he was allowed to go up with his squadron and act as an observer in a two seater plane. After much good service as an observer his superiors put him forward for pilot training in 1916. McCudden’s tally of the enemy over the next two years would rank him among the greatest of the World War One Aces; he claimed some 57 enemy aircraft even three in a single day in 1918. His exploits in the air were legendary, surviving an attack by the Red Baron himself, he pioneered new tactics that enabled him the edge of his enemy by using his engineering skill to fine tune his aircraft. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, DSO with Bar, MC with Bar and a Military Medal and the French Croix de Guerre for his daring, bravery and skill. It is with a sad irony that it was not his German foe that eventually ended his outstanding military service but a flying accident in 1918. He was only 23 at the time. His own exploits, adventures, tactics and escapes are best left to him in his own words, but suffice to say despite his modest retelling of his life in a day-by-day fashion remains both dramatic and engaging.
Flying Fury
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Author : James McCudden
language : en
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
Release Date : 2009-10-19
Flying Fury written by James McCudden and has been published by Casemate / Greenhill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-19 with History categories.
The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . . James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique and gripping firsthand account, he brings to life some of aviation history’s most dramatic episodes in a memoir completed at the age of twenty-three, just days before his tragic death. During his time in France with the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 to 1918, McCudden rose from mechanic to pilot and flight commander. Following his first kill in September 1916, McCudden shot down a total of fifty-seven enemy planes, including a remarkable three in a single minute in January 1918. A dashing patrol leader, he combined courage, loyalty, and judgment, studying the habits and psychology of enemy pilots and stalking them with patience and tenacity. Written with modesty and frankness, yet acutely perceptive, Flying Fury is both a valuable insight into the world of early aviation and a powerful account of courage and survival above the mud and trenches of Flanders. Fighter ace James McCudden died in July 1918, after engine failure caused his plane to crash just four months before the end of World War I. His success as one of Britain’s deadliest pilots earned him the Victoria Cross.
Flying Fury
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Flying Fury written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Flying Fury
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Flying Fury written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Flying Fury
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Flying Fury written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina
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Author : Elizabeth A. Sudduth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005
The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps written by James Thomas Byford McCudden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Air pilots, Military categories.
Forfatteren beretter om sin tid i Royal Flying Corps herunder oplevelserne som pilot under 1. verdenskrig
Reckless Fellows
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Author : Edward Bujak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-25
Reckless Fellows written by Edward Bujak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-25 with History categories.
The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in 1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as 'air cavalry' and also in combat, establishing air superiority over the Imperial German Air Force. Edward Bujak here combines the history of the air war, including details of strategy, tactics, technical issues and combat, with a social and cultural history. The RFC was originally dominated by the landed elite, in Lloyd George's phrase 'from the stateliest houses in England', and its pilots were regarded as 'knights of the air'. Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire, seat of landed gentry, became their major training base. Bujak shows how, within the circle of the RFC, the class divide and unconscious superiority of Edwardian Britain disappeared - absorbed by common purpose, technical expertise and by an influx of pilots from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He thus provides an original and unusual take on the air war in World War I, combining military, social and cultural history.