Somme Success - Hart Peter
Somme Success - Hart Peter High above the blood soaked trenches of the Somme during the Summer and Autumn of 1916, the Royal Flying Corps were acting out - and winning - one of the first great aerial…
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Somme Success - Hart Peter
High above the blood soaked trenches of the Somme during the Summer and Autumn of 1916, the Royal Flying Corps were acting out - and winning - one of the first great aerial battles of history. Before the battle, photographic reconnaissance aircraft from both sides were desperately trying to map the opposition's deployment. Even in those pioneering days of flying, primitive aircraft flown by brave young men were of significant military value.
Bombing raids became a normal routine. Artillery spotting aircraft were proving invaluable in directing devastating fire onto otherwise hidden targets. Somme Success is a highly effective description of all facets of air operations of the period.
It uses the voices and accounts of those who were there. It describes how the RFC met the Fokker scourge head on using DH2 single seaters and, later, the ubiquitous FE2B two seaters, of the type that German