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Title: Winged warfare : hunting the Huns in the air
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bishop, William Avery, 1894-1956
Subjects: Bishop, William Avery, 1894-1956 Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Fighter pilots
Publisher: London Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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Major W. A. Bishop, V.C, D.S.O., M.C. Winged Warfare HUNTING THE HUNS IN THE AIR BY MAJOR BISHOP, V.C, D.S.O., M.G. HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO1918 PrinU,i in Grtai Britain by Hatell, Wation & Viney, Ld.,London and AyUsbury. CHAPTER I It was the mud, I think, that made me taketo flying. I had fully expected that goinginto battle would mean for me the saddle ofa galloping charger, instead of the snug littlecock-pit of a modern aeroplane. The mud,on a certain day in July 1915, changed mywhole career in the war. We were in England. I had gone overas an officer of the Missisauga Horse, ofToronto, a cavalry detachment of the SecondCanadian Division. It had rained for daysin torrents, and there was still a drizzlecoming down as I set out for a tour of thehorse-lines. Ordinary mud is bad enough, when youhave to make your home in it, but the par-ticular brand of mud that infests a cavalrycamp has a meanness all its own. Everythingwas dank, and slimy, and boggy. I hadsuccewingedwarfarehun00bish

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