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Britain's Forgotten Fighters of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Britain's Forgotten Fighters of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Those with any interest in the First World War will have have heard
of the planes most associated with that conflict - the legendary
Sopwith Camel and Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.5a, which are often
called the "Spitfire" and "Hurricane" of the Great War. Aviation
enthusiasts might even know of the Camel's predecessors, the
Sopwith Pup or the Triplane. But what of the many other planes that
saw active service in the war? This is the story of those armed
aeroplanes whose names few people can recall, the 'Forgotten
Fighters' of the First World War, including the pusher 'gunbuses'
of the early war years, the strange 'pulpit' design of the B.E.9,
the desperate conversions of reconnaissance machines that were
never intended to be armed, and those which were thought too tricky
for the average pilot to handle. It is also the story of the brave
men who flew these machines, fighting, and too often dying, for a
cause they believed in. Some of these aeroplanes only served in
small numbers and others in areas away from the main battle on the
Western Front, but all made a vital contribution to the winning of
the war. And these lost but iconic fighter aircraft, and the brave
young men who flew them, deserve to be remembered just as much as
the more famous aces in their legendary machines. This is their
story.
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