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Description: | British officer served as pilot with Royal Naval Air Service based at Portland, Dorset, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Reasons for joining Royal Naval Air Service, 10/1916. Recollections of period of flying training at Eastchurch and Cranwell, 1917: haphazard nature of instruction; first flight; flying kit; physical effects of altitude on first solo; story of aircraft running away without him and crashing whilst trying to start propeller; nature of training at Cranwell; fainting during height tests and consequent of transfer to seaplanes. Aspects of period as officer at Calshot Royal Naval Air Station, 1917: story illustrating naval mess traditions; view of seaplane accident. Aspects of period as officer at Portland Royal Naval Air Station, 10/1917-11/1918: anti-submarine patrols; story of ditching in sea and rescue after sending message by pigeon; story of accidentally bombing a whale mistaken for submarine; story of sinking submarine and subsequent prize money. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Silwood, F D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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