An old aquaintace of mine was researching for a new book, I don`t know if he ever got to publish it as i haven`t seen him for years.
Hugh Cowin wrote quite a few books, perhaps some of you guys are familiar with his work...Off the top of my head one of Hugh`s was called`the Risk Takers`...Anyway i digress !
The main point of this thread is canvasing your opinions !
Hugh mentioned that if you subtracted the amount of pilots that the camel killed in training that would put the credit in favour of the SE !
Ball hated the SE at first...mind you he did want his own Austin fighter to be taken up !
Mannock, Jimmy McCudden, Bishop....etc were all staunchly pro- SE5.....where do you stand chaps !!!
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