Four of Our Finest: The Great War Pilots Fall, Atkey, Claxton and Quigley

Joseph Fall was a survivor. He survived a horrific accident at age fourteen and the brain surgery that followed. He survived the Great War as a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service. He survived polio between the wars, and he survived the Second World War serving as a Group Captain in North Africa. Alfred Atkey flew Bristol Fighters with No. 22 Squadron. He and his observer, Charles Gass, were a formidable pair. Between them they shot down as many enemy planes as the King of the Two-Seaters,...