• 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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    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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    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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