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Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : A. J. L. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-19

Sixty Squadron R A F written by A. J. L. Scott and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with History categories.


In 'Sixty Squadron R.A.F', A. J. L. Scott expertly captures the experiences of the Royal Air Force pilots during World War I through vivid recounting of aerial combat missions. The book is written in a gripping and immersive narrative style that places the reader right in the midst of the high-stakes dogfights of the era. Scott's attention to detail and accuracy in depicting the challenges faced by these brave pilots add authenticity to the historical context of the work. The book serves as a valuable literary document that sheds light on the courage and sacrifice of those who served in the Royal Air Force. A must-read for aviation history enthusiasts and those interested in the human stories behind wartime aviation. A. J. L. Scott's personal experience as a former R.A.F. pilot adds a unique perspective to 'Sixty Squadron R.A.F', making it a compelling and informative read for anyone seeking to understand the bravery and camaraderie of the men who fought in the skies during World War I.



Sixty Squadron Raf


Sixty Squadron Raf
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Author : A.J.L. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2016-10-19

Sixty Squadron Raf written by A.J.L. Scott and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with History categories.


This candid WWI memoir takes readers inside the cockpit with an RAF officer on the Western Front from the outbreak the Great War until its end in 1918. Louis Arbon Strange was at the Royal Air Force’s Central Flying School when war broke out in 1914. He immediately reported to Royal Flying Corps headquarters and joined No.5 Squadron. Strage remained on active duty throughout the war, serving his country over the Western Front from August of that year until the enemy’s surrender. Strange transferred to No.6 Squadron in 1915 and went on to form and command No.23 Squadron. Due to illness, he did not accompany his Squadron to France, but spent that time training others. He took charge of the Machine-Gun School at Hythe and other schools of aerial gunnery before returning to the Front. There he commanded the 23rd Wing, and finally took command of the 80th Wing from June 1918 until the end of the war. As Strange chronicles his experiences, he provides unique insight into how and why the Allied airmen eventually prevailed.



Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott
language : en
Publisher: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Release Date : 2015-01-08

Sixty Squadron R A F written by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott and has been published by GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-08 with categories.


Example in this ebook This book tells the story of Squadron No. 60 of the Royal Flying Corps, afterwards of the Royal Air Force. When the war began, in August 1914, the Royal Flying Corps was a very small body which sent four squadrons on active service and had a rudimentary training organisation at home. In those days the only functions contemplated for an airman were reconnaissance and occasionally bombing. Fighting in the air was almost unknown. The aeroplanes were just flying machines of different types, but intended to perform substantially the same functions. Gradually as the war continued specialisation developed. Fighting in the air began, machine guns being mounted for the purpose in the aeroplanes. Then some aeroplanes were designed particularly for reconnaissance, some particularly for fighting, some for bombing, and so on. It was in the early part of this period of specialisation that Squadron No. 60 was embodied. And, as this narrative tells us, its main work was fighting in the air. It was equipped for the most part with aeroplanes which were called scouts—not very felicitously, since a scout suggests rather reconnaissance than combat. These machines carried only one man, were fast, easy to manœuvre, and quick in responding to control. They were armed with one or two machine guns, and they engaged in a form of warfare new in the history of the world, and the most thrilling that can be imagined—for each man fought with his own hand, trusting wholly to his own skill, and that not on his own element, but in outrage of nature, high in the air, surrounded only by the winds and clouds. The embodiment of the fighting scout squadrons was part of the expansion and organisation of what became the Royal Air Force. Among all the achievements of the war there has been, perhaps, nothing more wonderful than the development of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, and their amalgamation in the great Royal Air Force which fought through the last year of the war. When the war opened, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were bodies of few units, ancillary to the Army and the Navy, of which the control was in the hands of the Army Council and the Board of Admiralty. It was not realised that warfare in the air was a new and distinct type of warfare. Generals who would have laughed at the idea of commanding a fleet, Admirals who would have shrunk from the leadership of an army corps, were quite unconscious of their unfitness to deal with the problems of aerial war. Every step, therefore, of the organisation and expansion of the flying services had to be conducted under the final control of bodies, kindly and sympathetic indeed, but necessarily ignorant. That the Royal Flying Corps attained to its famous efficiency and was expanded more than a hundredfold should earn unforgetting praise for those who were responsible for leading and developing it. The country owes a great debt, which has not, perhaps, been sufficiently recognised, to Sir David Henderson, whose rare gifts of quick intelligence and ready resource must have been taxed to the utmost in his dual position as head of the Flying Corps and member of the Army Council; to Sir Sefton Brancker, who worked under him in the War Office; and to Sir Hugh Trenchard, who, from the date that Sir David Henderson came back from France to that of the amalgamation of the flying services in the Royal Air Force, was in command in France. It was the administrative skill of these distinguished men that stood behind the work of the squadrons and made possible their fighting or bombing or reconnaissance. And this background of administrative skill and resource must not be forgotten or suffered to be quite outshone by the brilliant gallantry of the pilots and observers. To be continue in this ebook



Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : A J L Scott M C
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-12

Sixty Squadron R A F written by A J L Scott M C and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-12 with categories.


No. 60 (Reserve) Squadron of the Royal Air Force was formed in 1916 at Gosport. It is currently part of the Defence Helicopter Flying School based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. The Squadron crest is a markhor's head and was approved by King George VI in December 1937. Chosen to commemorate many years of service in North-West India, the markhor being a mountain goat frequenting the Khyber Pass. The horns of a markhor were presented to the Squadron in 1964. The Squadron motto is Per ardua ad aethera tendo - 'I strive through difficulties to the sky'. Formed at Gosport on 30 April 1916, barely a month had passed before the unit and its Morane-Saulnier N's were despatched to France. The squadron's initial pilot officers included Harold Balfour and Peter Portal, later Under-Secretary for Air and Chief of the Air Staff respectively, while Robert Smith-Barry, later to revolutionise British pilot training, was a flight commander and (from July to December 1916), the squadron's commanding officer. After suffering heavy losses during the Battle of the Somme, the Squadron re-equipped with Nieuport Scouts and soon acquired a first-class reputation for itself. On 2 June 1917, Captain WA "Billy" Bishop received the Victoria Cross for his solo attack on a German aerodrome destroying three enemy aircraft in the air and several 'probables' on the ground before returning unhurt in a badly damaged aircraft. A month later, S.E.5 fighters arrived and these remained with the Squadron until it was disbanded on 22 January 1920. The squadron claimed 320 aerial victories. Twenty-six flying aces served in the squadron during the war; notable among them were: Albert Ball - Victoria Cross winner Alexander Beck James Belgrave Alan Duncan Bell-Irving William Avery Bishop- Canadian Victoria Cross winner Keith Caldwell - future Air Commodore Robert L. Chidlaw-Roberts John Doyle Art Duncan Gordon Duncan William M. Fry John Griffith Harold A. Hamersley H. George Hegarty Spencer B. Horn William Molesworth Sydney Pope John William Rayner Alfred William Saunders Alan Scott Frank O. Soden Robert Kenneth Whitney



Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : Alan John Lance Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920

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Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : A. J. L. Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-18

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In the autumn of 1915, the Germans began producing the Fokker monoplane and in the following months would prove themselves a nuisance for the artillery observation machines. As a result, General Trenchard decided to form some new scout squadrons to counter the new threat: one of them was No. 60 Squadron. Formed from No. 1 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron and organised in April 1916, No. 60 Squadron would be in France within a month, equipped with the French Morane Type N. Following the Somme campaign, No. 60 Squadron re-equipped with the Nieuport Scout; they went on to participate at Arras, Passchendaele and in the March 1918 offensive. By war's end the squadron's members had been awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Orders, 1 Bar to DSO, 37 Military Crosses and 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and claimed over three hundred aerial victories. 'Sixty Squadron R.A.F.' is a classic squadron history of World War I. Group Captain A. J. L. Scott C.B. M.C. A.F.C. (1884-1922) was a New Zealand-born officer in the Royal Flying Corps, and subsequently the Royal Air Force. Originally an officer in the Sussex Yeomanry, he transferred to the R.F.C., becoming a flight commander with No. 43 Squadron, commander of No. 60 Squadron and later commandant of the Central Flying School. He was noted for being Winston Churchill's flying instructor. Albion Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.



Sixty Squadron R A F


Sixty Squadron R A F
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Author : Alan John Lance Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920

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Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation


Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation
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Author : George H. Doran Company
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-03-16

Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation written by George H. Doran Company and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-16 with History categories.


This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.



Holding To The Heavens


Holding To The Heavens
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Author : Paul Hickley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

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Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation Scholar S Choice Edition


Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : George H Doran Company
language : en
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Release Date : 2015-02-20

Sixty Squadron R A F A History Of The Squadron From Its Formation Scholar S Choice Edition written by George H Doran Company and has been published by Scholar's Choice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-20 with categories.


This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.