Winged Warfare: The Exciting True Experiences of a Fighting Ace of World War I
Winged Warfare: The Exciting True Experiences of a Fighting Ace of World War I
Ace Books | 1967 | ISBN: 0075510243 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 26 MB
Winged Warfare is the first of an authentic and exciting series of true air-combat classics, bringing back the great days of man-to-man aerial battles as told by the famous aces themselves. Credited with seventy-two victories, Canadian Ace William Bishop tells his own story of what it was like. He vividly recreates those early days— both comic and tragic-when the deadly "airborne jalopy" was getting its trial run. Bishop describes the tiny Nieuport Scout, armed with a single Lewis gun, in which he dodged the anti-aircraft batteries and fought the scarlet tri-winged Fokkers of Baron von Richthofen's squadron. His account of the joys and terrors of daily "dogfighting" is continuously exciting.