Excerpt from Heroes of Aviation I desire to here express my further Obligations to the London periodicals, Flight, Flying, Aeroplane and Aeronautics, for many Of the incidents relating to the British pilots. The inborn reluctance Of the British youth to speak Of his own heroic deeds prevents the world from esti mating the marvelous part he has played in sweeping Germany from the skies. The Hun pilots flood the world with the information of their victories. It was not until I visited England as the guest Of the British Government in the fall Of 1918 that I discovered that twenty British airmen have exceeded by over one hundred the number Of victories claimed by the best twenty Aces Of the Huns. And the great majority Of these British airmen are still silently carrying on, While but five Of the twenty Huns survive About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.