War Flying
Unknown
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Description
War Flying holds the letters of a pilot who signs as Theta, printed at Boston in 1917. The letters went to his home folk, from training through war service. A line from Campbell on the sentinel stars heads the book.
Book one treats training, from theory to practice, a first flying lesson, and going solo. A crash stands among the episodes. Book two treats active service, with an alphabet of air slang at its head. Letters name map study, a forced landing, and archies, the anti aircraft guns. Theta writes on night flying, photos, hide and seek in the air, and men listed as missing. One letter is headed aged nineteen. Readers get the Royal Flying Corps war as a young pilot lived it, week by week.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 103 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |