Gallantry in Action: Airmen Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Two Bars 1918-1955

When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its own gallantry medals to distinguish itself from the Army and the Royal Navy. Thus the new Distinguished Flying Cross came into being. Not that this new award (along with the Distinguished Flying Medal for noncommissioned personnel) came into immediate use, but as 1918 progressed, awards that earlier might have produced the Military Cross or Dist...