Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Winged Warfare
Here for the first time is presented the thrilling personal narrative of a living champion of the air - the self-told story of Major William A. Bishop, of Canada and the British Royal Flying Corps.
The comparatively recent deaths of Ball, the wonderful little English airman, and Guynemer, the daredevil French "ace," left Bishop, in a sense, alone in the air. He and Ball, in friendly rivalry, were flying almost wing to wing in the British service until Ball one day, roaming far over the German lines and revelling, as usual, in a one-sided battle with three enemy planes, met the "unlucky bullet" that sent him crashing to an untimely death at twenty years.
Major Bishop flew over three months after this, and his score of victories continued to mount until he held undisputed sway and had full credit for forty-seven German machines actually destroyed. In addition he had also successfully attacked and burned two enemy observation balloons.
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