Название: Osprey Men-at-Arms 351 - British Air Forces 1914-1918 (2)
Автор: Andrew Cormack
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1841760021
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 - including a strategic bomber force - and 27,330 men operating from some 700 bases. This second in a two-part study covers RAF, WRAF and RAFNS uniforms from the unification of the service in April 1918; and the whole span of flying clothing during the Great War.