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‘Air Policing‘ : The Air War Over West Mayo 1918-1921.

Dr. Myles Mac Evilly. As early as April 1918 the newly appointed Lord Lieutenant and Military Commissioner in Ireland, Lord French, in a letter to Prime Minister Lloyd George during the Conscription Crisis, advocated the use of airpower, “ that ought to put the fear of God into those playful young Sinn Feiners 1  ( 1 […]

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