Biggles in World War 1 Biggles In France by Captain W E Johns Biggles vol 9 A collection of short stories set in World War One originally published as a series in a magazine written by an author who served as an officer in the British Airforce in that war The hero of these tales informally known as Biggles is a British fighter pilot attached to 266 Squadron based on the Western Front in France These tales are set in 1917 and 1918 The squadron is equipped with the popular model of fighter aircraft known as the Sopwith Camel manufactured by the Sopwith Company These are some of the earliest Biggles stories They appeared in the magazine The Modern Boy about 1932 when the events of the Kaisers war were still fresh in mind and deal with that period of air combat when warflying was farfetched Captain WE Johns was born in Hertfordshire England in 1893 He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918 Between the wars he edited the magazines Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Air Ministry The first Biggles book Biggles The Camels are Coming was published in 1932 and W E Johns went on to write 102 Biggles titles in all

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