Derek Law Bibliography

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JEFFORD, C. G. Observers and Navigators: and Other Non-pilot Aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF. xiii, 274p., bibliog., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 2001. ISBN: 1840372753.

Traces the rise of the first generation of non-pilot aircrew between 1914 and 1919, examines the way in which in peacetime the RAF rapidly dispensed with its observer officers and their reinstatement in 1934, and looks at the rest of the century including the "1946 Aircrew Scheme". Has full coverage of FAA and Coastal Command. A revised and much expanded second edition was published by Grub Street in 2014, ISBN: 1909808024.