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British Air Forces 1914-18 (1)

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Men-at-Arms - World War I

Last Stocked on 11/10/2016

Product Info

Title
British Air Forces 1914-18 (1)
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2000
Dimensions
9x11x.75"
NKG Part #
340616956
MFG. Part #
OSPMAA341
Type
Softcover
Series
MAA341

Description

The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed strength of just over 2,000 all ranks; the Royal Naval Air Service had some 50 seaplanes. By the Armistice of 1918 the unified Royal Air Force was the largest in the world, with about 22,650 aeroplanes and 27,330 men operating from some 700 bases. This first in a two-part study describes and illustrates, in unprecedented detail, the uniforms of the RFC and RNAS in 1914-18-20.