King Of The Two Seaters

[Ginger.]

I'm sneaking up on a gaggle of two seaters on Flying Corps,Wunderbar!Harry Tates for breakfast.Suddenly my victims go split arsing all over the sky.There is the venomous snarl of a powerful motor going past and a blast of gunfire.I look over the side to find I'm flying a Fokker Neindecker striaght to Valhalla.To date I hav'nt lived long enough to see a Biff up close.So I bought Chaz Bowyer's book to see what one looked like.Has there ever been a memoir written by a Bristol Fighter ace,pilot or observer? Perhaps if I know my enemy I might last a bit longer.

True ha is not an ace but read Flying Minnows by I think somebody called Voss. Get the later copy where correct names are given in the form of an index.
It is quite well written.
Regards
Peter S

Flying Minnows by Vivian Voss 48 and 88 sqdn

andy

[Ginger.]

Many thanks,hope its in print.

Les Sutherlands, "Aces and Kings" which is larrikin like bunch of stories of 1 Sqn AFC in Palestine who flew "Biffs" through 1918.

It should be available from www.crossandcockade.com



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AFC - http://members.xoom.com/PointCook/index.htm

See also: "With a Bristol Fighter Squadron" by Walter Noble. He was an observer, not a pilot. But there's a lot about tactics and formations.

Bob