Chaz Bowyer

[1] Bowyer joined the Royal Air Force in 1943 at the age of 16 under the Aircraft Apprentice Scheme, based at RAF Halton.

Primarily to place on permanent record accurate accounts of men, deeds, and events connected with Royal Air Force history.

I am tired of reading historical drivel as perpetrated by 'well-known' authors, most of whom are simply novelists or journalists with no background knowledge of genuine aviation history.

His first book attempt was on RAF Calshot[1] but his first major work was The Flying Elephants, a history of Number 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force from 1915 to 1969 (Macdonald, 1972),[4] a unit in which Bowyer served,[1] which received a foreword by Air Marshal Sir Andrew McKee.

For a time he was the editor of the journal of the Cross and Cockade International society devoted to the history of aviation during the First World War.

He rarely consulted the Ministry of Defence or the Public Record Office, though he had good contacts with the Imperial War Museum.