Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781459706606
Subjects: Great britain, royal navy; Fighter pilots; World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, british; Great britain, biography
Description: "[This book] takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in their small, light, and very manoeuvrable craft to face the enemy. As the third-highest-scoring flying ace among British and colonial pilots in the First World War, scoring 60 victories, Collishaw was only surpassed by Billy Bishop and Edward Mannock. This book traces Collishaw's life from humble beginnings in Nanaimo, British Columbia, to victories in the skies over France."--Page 4 of cover.