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Author: A. Smith Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230286623 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
Author: A. Smith Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230286623 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
Author: Adrian Smith Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780333778982 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 211
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Adrian Smith rediscovers Britain's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War. He traces the myth of "an ace with one eye," examining how Mannock has been represented in both biography and in fiction, and asks why he is still commemorated today. The author suggests Mannock's tactics drew on his socialist beliefs, and argues that older, more experienced pilots were comfortable with the new technology and thus best equipped to fight the war in the air.
Author: Ira Jones Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill ISBN: 1935149776 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 359
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A penetrating study of Britain’s top World War I fighter ace, written by fellow pilot Ira Jones, the author of An Air Fighter’s Scrapbook. Ira Jones’ biography of Britain’s top-scoring ace of the First World War has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years; most notably, it claims seventy-three “kills” for Mannock, making him the number-one-scoring Allied ace of the war. Later research has thrown serious doubt on this assertion, and indeed, Mannock himself only claimed fifty-one kills. Jones’ biography is nevertheless an important account, especially when seen in the context of the time in which it was first written. In particular, the biography delves into the mind of Mannock, portraying the singular nature of his character and the true stress that these pioneer air fighters experienced in the last few months of the war. Originally published in 1934 by Ivor Nicholson and Watson in London, the book has been reprinted—most recently in the 1990s by Greenhill Books as part of its Vintage Aviation Library—and reproduced from the original 1930s version of the book. Not a word has been changed in this Casemate edition, but the original, very dated type and page layout have been reworked, as has been the format in which the book is presented, to give a beautiful new treatment to this classic of aviation literature.
Author: Norman Franks Publisher: Grub Street Publishers ISBN: 1909166855 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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The definitive biography of the WWI fighter pilot Edward “Mick” Mannock—and a revealing investigation into his mysterious fate. Although he was arguably the highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the First World War, Edward “Mick” Mannock’s life, particularly his death, is still shrouded in mystery. Did he achieve as many victories as are sometimes ascribed to him? How did he die? Where did he die? And more pertinently, where do his remains now lie? Investigative historians Norman Franks and Andy Saunders have assessed all the evidence and cut through the speculation to build a complete picture of the man and his achievements as a fighter pilot. Having unearthed much new and enlightening information, they present a truly balanced overview of his life—and also reveal for the first time exactly where he fell in battle a century ago. Includes photographs
Author: James M. Dudgeon Publisher: Robert Hale ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
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Beretning om en af Englands dygtigste jagerflyvere gennem tiden, et stort menneske, som kom fra beskedne kår, men som ved sin død i 1918 havde opnået de største anerkendelser.
Author: Ira Jones Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal ISBN: 9781853670381 Category : Fighter pilots Languages : en Pages : 303
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Biografi over den pilot og flyverhelt (Esser) major Edward Mannock, der var den engelske pilot, der skød flest modstandere ned under 1. verdenskrig og han blev dekoreret med Victoria Korset
Author: Peter McManus Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation ISBN: 9781844157495 Category : Fighter pilots Languages : en Pages : 256
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Lionel Blaxland was a pilot with No. 40 Squadron RFC, flying on the Western Front during 1917 and 1918. The squadron's FE8s proved vastly inferior to the German Fokker Eindekker, Albatros and Halberstadt aircraft. They were also often outgunned when their unreliable machine guns jammed in dogfights. 40 Squadron was flying reconnaissance missions for the ground troops and attacking German observation points and balloons, also attacking any German aircraft they encountered. The German squadrons were flying to defend their lines and attack Allied reconnaissance sorties. The result was that the RFC were always forced to fight over enemy held territory and if damaged were inevitably confronted with a lengthy flight against a prevailing headwind to reach safety behind their lines. The squadrons casualties were high.This book is based on Blaxland's flying log books and his five photograph albums of the period 1915 to 1920. It relates the difficult conditions under which the squadron was operating and gives an intriguing insight into operational life at that time. Fighter Ace 'Mick' Mannock joined 40 Squadron as a novice and Blaxford took him under his wing to protect and advise him until he grew to appreciate the dangers of flying in hostile skies. Mannock went on to account for 73 aerial victories and was the top scoring British fighter ace of the war.
Author: Mike Bechthold Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806157860 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 297
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Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893–1976) served in Britain’s air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Libya in 1940–41, during the Britain’s Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground cooperation system. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaw’s contribution to the British system of tactical air support—a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory. The British Army and Royal Air Force entered the war with conflicting views on the issue of air support that hindered the success of early operations. It was only after the chastening failure of Operation Battleaxe in June 1941, fought according to army doctrine, that Winston Churchill shifted strategy on the direction of future air campaigns—ultimately endorsing the RAF's view of mission and target selection. This view adopted principles of air-ground cooperation that Collishaw had demonstrated in combat. Author Mike Bechthold traces the emergence of this strategy in the RAF air campaign in Operation Compass, the first British offensive in the Western Desert, in which Air Commodore Collishaw’s small force overwhelmed its Italian counterpart and disrupted enemy logistics. Flying to Victory details the experiences that prepared Collishaw so well for this campaign and that taught him much about the application of air power, especially how to work effectively with the army and Royal Navy. As Bechthold shows, these lessons learned altered the Allied approach to tactical air support and, ultimately, changed the course of the Second World War.
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