Airfields and Airmen
Ypres
Published on 23. December 2008
160 pages
978-1-78340-996-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Battleground Europe series has helped create a new audience for the story of the desperate battles of World War I, But up to now the series has largely been concerned with the ground war. Popular demand has inspired the editors to create a new series of guides to the air war 1914-1918. The first volume is devoted to the Ypres Salient, the northernmost sector of the Western Front. Here the Royal Flying Corps battled the German Imperial Air Service for supremacy over the battlefield, while the Royal Naval Air Service attempted to intercept Germany's Zeppelins and early long-range bombers before they could reach the skies over London.The airfields, battle and crash sites, and monuments associated with the air war in the Ypres sector are covered with all the then-and now detail expected by battleground Europe readers. The dramatic text is backed up with numerous maps, photographs and an extensive bibliography.
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Airfields and Airmen: Ypres
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Content
- Intro
- Other guides in the Battleground Europe Series:
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION BY SERIES EDITOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY FLYING
- German ranks and their British equivalent
- Chapter One - YPRES: THE WESTERN AREA
- Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
- Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery
- Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery
- Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
- Abeele Aerodrome
- Bailleul
- Bailleul Communal Cemetery and Extension
- The Town Ground Aerodrome, Bailleul
- The East and Asylum Aerodromes, Bailleul
- The East Aerodrome
- The Asylum Aerodrome
- The Huts Cemetery
- Chapter Two - YPRES: THE SOUTHERN AREA
- Merville and La Gorgue Aerodromes today
- Merville Aerodrome
- La Gorgue Aerodrome
- La Gorgue Communal Cemetery
- Pont-du-Hem Cemetery
- Laventie Military Cemetery
- Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery
- Bedford House Cemetery
- Railway Dugouts Cemetery
- Chapter Three - YPRES: THE NORTHERN AREA
- Ferme Olivier Cemetery
- Bleuet Farm Cemetery
- New Irish Farm Cemetery
- Langemark German Cemetery
- Tyne Cot Cemetery
- Georges Guynemer
- Vladslo German Cemetery
- Wareghem American Cemetery
- Marckebeeke Aerodrome
- Menin German Cemetery
- The Halluin Aerodromes
- Halluin East or Reckem (Rekkem) Aerodrome
- Perth (China Wall) Cemetery
- Larch Wood Cemetery
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- INDEX
