RFC/RAF: Where They Flew & Fell

In the final episode of our Air War series we travel across the landscape of the First World War and discover what we can find that connects us to the story of the Royal Flying Corps and RAF in WW1, from memorials to cemeteries and sites of former aerodromes.

Along the way we examine the stories of some of the Aces from James McCudden VC to Manfred Von Richthofen – The Red Baron – to Bob Little from Australia and Major Lanoe Hawker VC, before seeing the battlefields where Albert Ball VC’s war ended and the fields where Mick Mannock VC crashed in 1918.

We end at the Air Services Memorial at Arras which commemorates nearly a thousand British and Commonwealth aviators of the First World War.

Mike O’Connor ‘Airfields and Airmen’ books published by Pen & Sword:

• Airfields & Airmen: Arras (2004)
• Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai (2007)
• Airfields & Airmen: Channel Coast (2007)
• Airfields & Airmen: Somme (2001)
• Airfields & Airmen: Ypres (2000)

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BATTLEFIELD MAP:

Plaque from McCudden’s original grave at Wavans