Marked for Death (52 page)

Handley Page, Frederick
249

hang-gliders
42

Hartley, L.P.

The Go-Between
249

Hartney, Harold
240
,
241

Haupt-Heydemarck, Oberleutnant
244

Hawker, Major Lanoe
54
,
80
,
87
,
188–9

helmets
243
,
244
,
245

Henderson, Sir David
19–20
,
27
,
236
,
272

Henderson, Yandell
207

Hill, Douglas
267

Home Defence
149
,
253–80

aircraft deployed for
266

anti-aircraft batteries/defence
70
,
259
,
272
,
273

appointment of Smuts as head of
273

difficulties in setting up adequate defences against bombing raids
260

initial lack of
258
,
260
,
265–6

public anger at lack of and demands for improvements in
268

recall of squadrons from France
268–9
,
271

and RNAS’s seaplanes
262–5

wireless communication in defending aircraft
272–3

Zeppelin raids
258
,
259

home leave
173–4

Hotchkiss machine gun
29
,
73
,
79

Hughes, Sergeant H.F.
62–3

Hussein bin Ali, Sherif of Mecca
282

hypoxia
206
,
208
,
209
,
210
,
211

Immelmann, Max
80
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
189
,
201

Independent Air Force (IAF)
117
,
276

India
283

instrumentation, aircraft
224–5

compasses
226

slip bubble
224–5
,
226

Iraq
297–301

Iraq War (2003)
279–80

Italian aircraft
294

Caproni’s bombers
294

CR.42 ’Falco’
50

Italian Front
293–5

Italy
73–4

dropping of bombs by aircraft in Libya (1911)
69–70

war against Austria-Hungary
294
,
295

Jagdgeschwader
194–5

James, Lieutenant B.T.
98

Jastas
189
,
190

Jerusalem
302

John Bull
36
,
261

Johns, W.E.
3–6
,
169
,
210–11
,
288–90
,
292
,
303–4

Biggles Flies East
297

and Biggles stories
3
,
4–6
,
164
,
222
,
246–7
,
287

The Camels are Coming
65

first solo flight
135–6

flying career
3–4
,
108–9

and Gallipoli
287

and
Popular Flying
4
,
141

The Rescue Flight
135

training to fly
133
,
136–7
,
141–2

juvenile pilots
135

Karno, Fred
160

Kilduff, Peter
199
,
200

Kipling, Rudyard

‘Recessional’
14
,
281

Kitchener
285

Königsberg
, destruction of (1915)
283–4

Kozakov, Lieutenant Alexander
75

Kressenstein, Colonel Kress von
296

Kut al Amara
298–9

Lafayette Squadron
173

Larkin, Philip

‘MCMXIV’
13
,
14

Lawrence, T.E.
282–3
,
298–9
,
302
,
304

Le Prieur rockets
111

Lee, Arthur Gould
89
,
105
,
119
,
128
,
136
,
172
,
207–8
,
226
,
233
,
234
,
241
,
246
,
248

Leslie-Moore, Lieutenant
291–2

Lettow-Vorbeck, General Paul Emil von
284

Lewis, Cecil
53–4
,
101
,
135
,
136
,
156
,
169
,
224–5

Sagittarius Rising
309–10

Lewis gun
78
,
79
,
88

Lewis, Lieutenant D.S.
98

Libya
286

Lilienthal, Otto
41–2

line offensive patrols (LOPS)
104–6

Lloyd George, David
37
,
266
,
271

Loerzer, Bruno
75–6
,
171

London

bombing raids against
149
,
268
,
270–1

looting
271

reprisals taken against foreigners by East Enders
269

slums
15

London Warning Centre
270

Longcroft, General Charles
236

looping the loop
126
,
183

Loraine, Robert
97

Löwenhardt, Erich
186

Lufbery, Raoul
241

Luftstreitkräfte
190
,
197
,
253

Lusitania
, RMS, sinking of (1915)
274

LVG
83

McCudden, James
90
,
168
,
194
,
195
,
202

McCurdy, John
97

Macedonia
287–9
,
290–2

McElroy, George
202

Machine Gun Corps
287
,
288

machine guns
77–85

Gast
69

Hotchkiss
29
,
73
,
79

jamming of
89–91

Lewis gun
78
,
79
,
88

Spandau
86

and synchronisation
21
,
28
,
29
,
84–6
,
88–90

Mackenzie, Flight Lieutenant
187

Maclennan, Roderick
146–7

McWalter, Dr
227

magnetos
57

Maitland, Captain Edward
234–5

malaria
292

Mannock, Mick
90
,
91
,
193
,
202

Rules
191

Marconi, Guglielmo
97

Marinetti, F.T.
70
,
153

Martin, Lieutenant Bill
78

Marty, Philippe
39–40
,
41

Mattioli, Guido
153
,
295

Maxim, Sir Hiram
86
,
229

medical officers
221–2

Medical Research Council

‘The Medical Problems of Flying’
229

medics
205–32

Megiddo, Battle of (1918)
302

Mesopotamia
282
,
295–304

Middle East campaign
281–6

Military Cross
187

Ministry of Munitions
37–8

monoplanes
46
,
47
,
49

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
3

Morane brothers
84

Morane-Saulnier aero company
84

Morse transmission
97
,
98
,
99
,
103
,
223

Mosso, Angelo
206

Mount Vernon Hospital (Northwood)
227
,
228

munitions factories

working conditions
91

Munitions of War Act
31
,
55

Mussolini, Benito
153
,
295

National Physical Laboratory
18

NATO
307

Nerger, Commander
265

Nesterov, Pyotr
126
,
183

Nicholson, Field Marshal Sir William
9

night flying
114–17

Nissen huts
178

Nungesser, Charles
49

observation
8–9
,
21
,
30

aircraft
59
,
70
,
71–2
,
74
,
76
,
79
,
99
,
100–4
,
127

balloons
8
,
17
,
44
,
71
,
92
,
96
,
109–10

observers
20
,
30
,
59
,
76
,
77
,
78–9
,
101
,
102
,
193

fixing aircraft from outside cockpit
112–13

German
79
,
212

and parachutes
109

stress experienced by
222–3

O’Gormon, Mervyn
17–18
,
19
,
20
,
23–4
,
27
,
35
,
235–6

O’Hagan, Andrew
250

Ottoman Empire
283

oxygen equipment
210–11

Palestine
295–302

Pankhurst, Sylvia
271

Parabellum MG (14)
79

parachutes
2
,
233–51

and American pilots
240

buying of by officers
236–7

and French pilots
240

and German pilots
237

Guardian Angel
235–6
,
237
,
239

impact of added weight of to aircraft performance
238

Mears type
239

non issuing of until end of war and reasons
81
,
234–9

snagging of
239–40

Spencer type
235

storing of on an aircraft
238–9

used for jumps from balloons
234–5

Parke, Wilfred
51–3

‘Parke’s Dive’
52–3

Parsevals
72

patrols

contact
102–4

distant offensive
104
,
106–9

line offensive
104–6

Paxman, Jeremy
6

Pearce, Major J.L.T.
91

Pégoud, Adolphe
126
,
183–4
,
201

Pemberton Billing, Noel
24–9
,
35–7

The Air War: How to Wage It
36–7
,
268

Persia
282
,
299

Piazza, Captain Carlo
70

pigeons
111–12

Pike’s Peak expedition (1911)
206–7

Pilot’s Psalm
100–1

pilot’s vertigo
223–4

Popular Flying
(magazine)
4
,
141
,
204

Poulson, J.
45–6

propellers, aero
41
,
60
,
299

pusher biplanes
18
,
30
,
60–1
,
78
,
87
,
231

Q ships
255–6
,
264

radio
see
wireless communication

RAF (Royal Air Force)
10

formation of (1918)
35
,
37
,
175
,
216

gradual shrinkage and rationalisation
305–7

heyday of
305

Rawlinson, Sir Henry
87

Red Baron
see
Richthofen, Manfred von

Redaelli, Cesare
153

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western Front
173

reprisal raids
268–9
,
276

RFC (Royal Flying Corps)

accident rate
123

amalgamation with RNAS to form RAF
35
,
175

criticism of by Pemberton Billing
26

filmic mythology surrounding
158

formation of (1912)
17
,
71

formation of Special Medical Boards (1917)
216

reorganisation of squadrons
87

Rhys-Davids, Arthur
195

Richthofen, Manfred von (Red Baron)
2–3
,
183
,
192–5

aircraft flown
35
,
48
,
196

awarded Blue Max
186
,
192

death and burial
118
,
196–7

impact of death
197

leader of
Jagdgeschwader
1
194–5

method of attack
193–4

number of victories
2
,
193

Red Baron nickname
2
,
194

rise in fame
194

Rickenbacker, Eddie
49

riding

connection between best pilots and
216–17

RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service)
17
,
20
,
26
,
29
,
35
,
72
,
262

Roe, A.V.
43

roll, yaw and pitch
42

Rolls, Hon. Charles Stuart
45
,
235

Rolls-Royce
31
,
266

Rowntree, Seebohm

Poverty
15