Sergeant James Hubert Ronald Green (7 February 1897 – 15 December 1917) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Green was born...
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activist James Green (RFC airman) (1897–1917), British World War I flying ace James Alexander Green (1926–2014), British mathematician James I. J. Green, British...
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Royal Flying Corps (redirect from RFC Home Establishment)
the RFC signallers on the ground beside the battery command post to pick out calls for fire in their battery's Zone. Once ranging started the airman reported...
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fictional character) Capt Bill Harsker, begins his flying career as an airman gunner in the front of a Vickers Gunbus and advances to become an ace pilot...
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described by his preeminent foe, Victoria Cross winner James McCudden, as "the bravest German airman". The pilot who actually killed Voss, Arthur Rhys-Davids...
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No. 2 Squadron RAF (redirect from No. 2 Squadron RFC)
first British airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross, during a raid on Kortrijk, Belgium on 26 April 1915. No. 2 Squadron became the first RFC squadron to...
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and in 1916 joined Royal Flying Corps (RFC). After completing his training he was assigned to No. 40 Squadron RFC. Mannock went into combat on the Western...
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head for the group's assembly point near the coast. Once airborne every airman had to hope that his oxygen mask and supply functioned properly when it...
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completed his training in the spring of 1917 and was assigned to No. 56 Squadron RFC on 7 March 1917. Rhys-Davids gained his first victory on 23 May 1917 and...
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Grain. A Vickers F.B.4 (Gunbus no. 664) of 7 Squadron Royal Flying Corps (RFC), flown by Second-Lieutenant Montagu Chidson and the gunner, Corporal Martin...
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