In the Teeth of the Wind: Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War - Hardcover

Bartlett, C. P. O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557503931 ISBN 13: 9781557503930

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1994

Synopsis

The dawning of aerial warfare is fully recounted in this dramatic memoir of the first bomber squadron mission of the Royal Navy Air Service over the Western Front. The author recounts his own extraordinary 101 missions, including the operation that very nearly decided the war.

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Flying by day and night alone, without navigational aids, the author moves from attacks on the U-boat bases to bombing the German Gothas as they prepared to raid London, and then to the support of Haig's drive to the coast which ended in the mud of Passchendaele. The climax in March, 1918, is reached when the author's squadron finds itself directly in the path of Ludendorff's massive thrust, which broke the British Vth Army and nearly decided the War. Attacked by Richthofen's aces, No 5 Squadron RNAS flew continuous and desperate missions against the advancing troops from aerodromes which were over-run time after time. At a time when the life of a pilot was reckoned in weeks, the author flew 101 missions, enduring the rigours of flying without heating or oxygen, with hesitant engines, no parachutes and the attention of German fighters. Yet there is continual evidence of the pure joy of flying and wonder at the sheer beauty of the sky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1557503931
• ISBN 13: 9781557503930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Bartlett Nick