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KS4 / GCSE History: Indian Fighter Pilots in the Royal Flying Corps in World War One
The Royal Flying Corps ... with that with any of the great fighter aces of the first World war. But this pilot wasn’t British or French or German, he was a 19 year old Indian called Indra ...
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Medals of WWI flying ace and double agent go on sale
The medals of a First World War flying ace who spied on the Nazis for four years have gone on sale. Major Christopher Draper shot down nine German aircraft and balloons during the war. The airman ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five ... In 1941, he joined scout squadron VS-2, flying SBDs from the Lexington. Leppla’s usual “back-seater ...