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The Spider Web - Royal Navy Air Service Flying Boat Operations During the First World War by a Flight Commander (Hardcover)
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The Spider Web - Royal Navy Air Service Flying Boat Operations During the First World War by a Flight Commander (Hardcover)
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War at sea-war in the air
This is an account of the early days, during the Great War, of the
service that became the Fleet Air Arm. It did not take long after
hostilities commenced for the Royal Navy to appreciate the
potential of an 'air force' both as an eye in the sky and as an
effective method of countering enemy surface vessels and most
especially German submarine activity. Endurance, speed and surprise
were the essential components of the sea-plane and flying boat war.
Appearing suddenly out of the sun, a surface cruising U-Boat had
little time to dive to safety before destruction rained down upon
it. This book contains may gripping incidents of U-Boat hunting in
the 'Spider Web', a great tract of the North Sea which was the Navy
flyer's patrol area and battlefield. This was a hard war fraught
with dangers from mechanical breakdowns, attacks from enemy
aircraft, lethal weather and anti-aircraft fire among its many
perils. A riveting account of the sea and early aviation warfare.
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