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From some people kind enough to help at the FAA:
We searched large bibliographic databases (British Library and OCLC) for any books written by Dr. J.L. Birley and found none.
Dr. Birley is mentioned in "The Cream of the Crop: Canadian Aircrew,
1939-1945," English, A.D., 1996, which we do not have in the library and
cannot be copied from the bookseller's Web site. Couple of lines from the
book..."Birley was a leader in the field of aviation psychology in the
1920s." "Birley's findings were laid out in a series of lectures to the
Royal College of Physicians of London, which were published in the Lancet
in 1920." A reference from the book: Birley rose to rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the RAF and was twice mentioned in dispatches. After
the war he served as consulting physician to the RAF, and in 1920-22, as a
Member of the War Office Committee on Shell Shock. He died in 1934 at age fifty: Who Was Who (London: Adams and Charles Black, 1947), 3: 115-116."
I am currently trying to get the Lancet Articles to review for you, and am hoping that one of them is the desired "Psychology of the Airman", but no bets. Doc
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