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[Preface]vii
[An Acknowledgment]xiii
[An Explanation of Technical Terms Used]xix
[CHAPTER I]
The Formation of the Squadron1
[CHAPTER II]
The Somme11
[CHAPTER III]
Arras30
[CHAPTER IV]
Passchendale and the Northern Battles65
[CHAPTER V]
The March Offensive (1918)92
[CHAPTER VI]
Demobilisation125
[APPENDIX I]
A List of the Officers who served in 60 Squadron during the War128
[APPENDIX II]
A List of Battle Casualties134
[Index]139

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Balloon Strafing[Frontispiece]
FACING
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Patrol of Morane “Bullets” about to leave the Ground, Vert Galant, June 1916[6]
H. Balfour and D. V. Armstrong, July 1916[8]
Claude A. Ridley, D.S.O., M.C., in a Morane “Bullet”[8]
Summers standing by his Morane “Parasol”[16]
Major R. Smith-Barry in a Morane “Bullet”[16]
Browning-Paterson with his Morane “Parasol”[20]
Capt. D. V. Armstrong[20]
Some of the Officers of 60[24]
Morane “Bullet” crashed by Simpson. Boisdinghem, June 1916[24]
“A” Flight awaiting Signal to Proceed on Patrol, May 1917[28]
The Kaiser decorating Von Richthofen, whose Aeroplane appears beyond the Group[28]
Molesworth, Bishop, and Caldwell, April 1917[40]
Bishop, Caldwell, and Young, April 1917[40]
The Hard Tennis-court at Filescamp Farm, May 1917[58]
60 Squadron’s Nieuport Scouts lined up in the Snow at Le Hameau Aerodrome, near Arras, January 1917[58]
A Dog-fight100
“Archie”100
German Machines112
An S.E.A. with Lieut. Roth, a Pilot of 148 American Squadron, standing118
S.E.5A. with 200 h.p. Hispano Suisa Engine, armed with one Vickers and one Lewis Gun118
MAPS: ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Situation on September 25, 1918[116]
The Battles and their Effects[126]

[AN EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED]

The line drawing below of a typical tractor biplane will explain to the non-technical reader the meaning of many terms used hereafter which are difficult to describe without the aid of a diagram: