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Article: World War One ace! Billy Bishop went to war.
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- Airpower
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Billy Bishop was a small town Canadian rookie who started his World War I military career as a horse cavalry Lieutenant and finished it as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). Posted to the RFC's 60 Squadron in February 1917, he soon faced some of the best fliers Germany could put into the air. The inexperienced Bishop was thrust into a grim world where the average life span of a novice pilot was 11 days. Although he had only a few simple orientation flights before being thrown into combat, eighteen months later, when the World War I Armistice ended the shooting, William Avery "Billy" Bishop had 72 victories to his credit. He had also earned a chest full ...
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