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A. J. L. Scott. Sixty Squadron R.A.F
Sixty Squadron R.A.F
Table of Contents
PREFACE
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
AN EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED
B.E.2C., R.E.8, and Other Types of Two-seater Machines
F.E.2B
De Havilland 4
Nieuport, S.E.5, and Sopwith Camel
SIXTY SQUADRON. R.A.F
CHAPTER I. THE FORMATION OF THE SQUADRON
CHAPTER II. THE SOMME
CHAPTER III. ARRAS
CHAPTER IV. PASSCHENDALE AND THE NORTHERN BATTLES
“Character of a Gentleman
CHAPTER V. THE MARCH OFFENSIVE (1918)
CHAPTER VI. DEMOBILISATION
THE BATTLES AND THEIR EFFECTS
APPENDIX I. LIST OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE SERVED IN 60 SQUADRON
APPENDIX II. BATTLE CASUALTIES
Footnote
INDEX
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A. J. L. Scott
A History of the Squadron from its Formation
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All these matters were at last decided, and 60 Squadron was formed on May 1, 1916. At that time there were in the Royal Flying Corps about thirty-five service squadrons all told, of which by far the greater number were in France. The Royal Naval Air Service had at this date considerably fewer service units. When the Armistice was signed, there were well over two hundred service squadrons in the Royal Air Force, which had come into being as an independent entity distinct from the Army or the Navy on April 1, 1918. During the months previous to the formation of 60, the Germans, with the aid of the Fokker monoplane, which they produced in the autumn of 1915, had begun seriously to interfere with our artillery observation machines. At this period of the war—early 1916—we had no complete single-seater fighting scout squadrons, but achieved the protection of the artillery machines, mostly B.E.2C.s, by having a few Bristol and other scouts in each two-seater squadron.
As a result of these losses, General Trenchard decided to form some new scout squadrons, of which 60 shortly became one, and also to re-equip some of the existing squadrons with scouts. No. 1 Squadron, for example, was given Nieuports (a French machine), at that time the equal of any German fighter.
