Series editor John Farren writes: Edward Mannock VC and James McCudden VC rose from modest backgrounds to become two of Britain's greatest fighter aces in World War One. As their number of ...

Part of the reason this is the case is that the United States Armed Forces hasn’t produced any air aces since the Vietnam War—and that conflict ended fifty years ago this coming April.

The medals of a First World War flying ace who spied on the Nazis for four ... After a chance meeting with Adolf Hitler at a 1932 air show, he was approached by the Nazis to see if he would ...

The Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal Air Force in 1918, played an increasingly critical role in the fighting and a new type of hero was born, the flying ace. In the summer of 1918 ...