Airfields and Airmen
Cambrai
Published on 26. September 2003
176 pages
978-1-78340-997-6 (ISBN)
Description
Airfields and Airmen:Cambrai covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons. We visit the graves of Fokker Eindecker aces and the airfields where the first Jastas were formed. Also covered are airfields from which Allied aces such as Beauchamp and Proctor VC flew, and there is a visit to the American cemetery at Bony that contains a number of aviators.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Mike O'Connor
Airfields & Airmen of Cambrai: Battleground
Book
02/2003
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
€32.32
Article exhausted; check different version
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION BY SERIES EDITOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE GUIDE
- THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
- HOW THE GUIDE WORKS
- THE TOURS AND DIRECTIONS
- AERODROMES
- CEMETERIES
- TABLE OF MAPS
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY FLYING
- Abbreviations
- The RFC Order of Battle 20th November 1917 (Cambrai)
- Chapter One - CAMBRAI: THE EASTERN AREA
- Cambrai Municipal Park
- Bouchain German Cemetery
- Famars Aerodrome
- Frasnoy German Cemetery
- Maubeuge Aerodrome
- Le Cateau Aerodrome 1914
- Le Cateau Aerodrome 1918
- St Souplet British Cemetery
- Caudry German Cemetery
- Boistrancourt Aerodrome
- Cambrai German Cemetery
- Chapter Two - CAMBRAI: THE SOUTHERN AREA
- Masnières
- The Somme American Cemetery
- Maissemy German Cemetery
- Vadencourt British Military Cemetery
- St Quentin German Cemetery
- Roupy Aerodrome
- Chateau Vaux Aerodrome
- Flez Aerodrome
- Estrées-en-Chaussée Aerodrome
- Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension
- Hesbécourt Communal Cemetery
- Chapter Three - CAMBRAI: THE WESTERN AREA
- Tincourt New British Cemetery
- Péronne Communal Cemetery
- Etricourt
- Lechelle Aerodrome
- Bertincourt Communal Cemetery
- Vélu/Bertincourt Aerodrome
- Lebucquière Communal Cemetery Extension
- Vaulx Australian Field Ambulance Cemetery
- HAC Cemetery Ecoust-St-Mein
- Cagnicourt British Cemetery
- Lagnicourt Aerodrome
- Porte-de-Paris Cemetery
- Conclusion
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX
