First World War : Royal Flying Corps. 1880-1919.

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First World War : Royal Flying Corps. 1880-1919.

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The collection includes a precis of a war diary written during operations in France and Belgium, 1914; a report of operations and intelligence in Italy, 1918, with an account of a raid on Vienna by Gabriele d'Annunzio, who undertook the project to take photographs and drop propaganda leaflets; two books of aerial photographs of Belgian battlefields, Messines and Passchendale; and the papers of Brigadier General R.M. Groves. Groves's documents embody a brief biographical sketch of his life and accomplishments, with documentation, and two sets of essays written by himself on numerous military matters. In the report of the raid on Vienna there is a communique on the shooting down of a plane piloted by "Mick" Mannock, Fighter Ace, in July 1918.

1 box (.75 linear ft.)

Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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Groves, R. M., 1880-1919

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