Setting the Scene – Background Articles

The following background articles in the ‘Setting the Scene’ series are available.  The intention is that they give some context either to particular events referred to in the blog, or more generally to the war in the air above the Western Front in 1918. Check back for further articles as the blog develops.

The Corps Squadrons of the RFC and RAF

Counter Battery Patrols and Zone Calls

Observation of Artillery Fire – A Shoot

The Spring Offensives

The Royal Aircraft Factory RE8

The Battles for Villers-Bretonneux

The Battle of Cantigny

General Birdwood

The ‘Black Day’ that Marked the Start of the Last Hundred Days

Siege Batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery

Liberation of Lille…and Elsewhere

When the Guns Fell Silent

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