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This collection traces the early engineering and rapid wartime development of airships and aeroplanes, explains basic principles without technical depth, and celebrates individual aviators’ daring exploits. It interleaves concise historical sketches of machine types and operational roles with portraits of notable fliers and accounts of patrols, engagements, captures, and decorations. Separate chapters survey contributions and praise from allied nations, enemy activity, and the air arm’s growing strategic importance, concluding with lists of honours and memorials for those who died. The overall aim is to inform readers about aerial progress while highlighting courage and sacrifice.
First Edition, 1917
TO THE
MEMORY OF THE HEROIC AIRMEN
WHO HAVE
LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE
OF THEIR COUNTRY
Acknowledgement is due in many directions, to various friends for supplying interesting information, and to the authors of various books and articles.
These pages, however, are far from being of a technical nature. The chief aim is to awaken the interest of the reader and throw fresh light on heroic deeds.
E. W. W.