Fighter Pilot on the Western Front

The author joined the Royal Naval Air Service for training as a pilot in June 1916. He served in No 8 (N) Squadron and then in the newly created RAF until the end of the war. This book is his exciting day-to-day diary of his patrols flying triplanes, and then Sopwith Camels. He recounts in simple but graphic detail the dog-fights, the kills and the losses. This daily record provides a unique picture of the lives of the intrepid men who fought in the air when both the art of flying and the construction of planes were in their infancy.