royal flying corps in russia 1917

[august g blume]

i am interested in learning details about a royal flying corps mission to russia

during 1917. it was led by Colonel James Valentine and was to train russian

airmen on British aircraft that came with the mission. would like to learn the

full names and ranks of all pilots and observers, possible victory claims and

losses, as well as awards (British or Russian) the airmen may have received.

thank you. august blume

[MikeW]

August,

Cross & Cockade International ran a shortish article on Major Valentine a few years ago, it certainly has some details of the mission which as you say was intended to train Russian airmen.

If you look on their web site you will find an index which will tell you which issue of the journal you need. Let me know if you can't find it.

Mike

[august g blume]

thank you for responding. i do have the c&c int article about valentine, but it lacked many details. cheers