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	Billy Bishop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bishop failed his first year at RMC in marked contrast to his older brother Worth who had set academic records while he was at RMC.
		Bishop got his first victory on March 25 when his was one of four Nieuports that engaged three (additional info and facts about Albatros D.III) Albatros D.III Scouts near St Leger.
		Captain Bishop, who had been sent out to work independently, flew first of all to an enemy aerodrome; finding no machines about, he flew on to another aerodrome about 3 miles southeast, which was at least 12 miles the other side of the line.
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	Billy Bishop
		Bishop got his first victory on March 25 when he was one of four Nieuports that engaged three Albatross DIII Scouts near St Leger.
		On August 5, Bishop was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and was given the post of "Officer Commanding-designate of the Canadian Air Force Section of the General Staff, Headquarters Overseas Military Forces of Canada".
		Bishop was demobilised from the Canadian Expeditionary Force on December 31 and returned to Canada.
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	Bishop, William Avery
		Bishop had already won several medals, including the Military Cross, but the account of this daring, one-man raid won him the highest of all British honours for bravery in battle, the Victoria Cross.
		Bishop's victories were an inspiration to the troops during World War I, but some critics have suggested that his famous raid never took place.
		A film that questioned Bishop's claims caused a furor in Parliament and led to a Senate investigation, which was not conclusive.
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	First World War.com - Who's Who - William Bishop
		William Avery (Billy) Bishop (1884-1956) was Canada's highest-scoring fighter pilot of World War One, with 72 confirmed victories.
		Bishop, who flew Nieuport 17 and S.E.5a's, was referred to as "the Lone Hawk" for his preference (like Albert Ball) for solo missions.
		Bishop was the ninth Canadian to receive the VC (the first being Alexander Roberts Dunn in 1854).
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/bishop.htm (462 words)

	Billy Bishop (www.combatsim.com)
		Bishop was shook up again, for he and Ball had plotted to make an early morning raid on a German airfield when he got back from leave.
		Bishop banked and dived, coming in perpendicular to the flight line and fired a 97-round drum of 0.303 bullets into the aircraft, killing one mechanic.
		The closest Bishop came to death was on one routine patrol, he was flying close to the ground when he was hit in the fuel tank by German ground fire.
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	William Avery "Billy" Bishop
		William Avery Bishop was born on February 8, 1894, to William and Margaret Bishop of Owen Sound, Ontario.
		Bishop saw this and became depressed at the prospects of being in a cavalry unit in a trench war.
		Bishop was a bit of a ham-handed student, but even after crashing a Farman he graduated from "flight school" with about four hours of flying time to his credit and wore the double flying wings of a pilot.
	www.constable.ca /bbishop.htm (4783 words)

	Lone Wolf at Dawn
		Born to William and Margaret Bishop on February 8, 1894, blonde, blue-eyed William Avery Bishop was the third son in a family of four children.
		Bishop was sent to England to recuperate, and his 21 Squadron was almost completely decimated shortly thereafter in the Battle of the Somme.
		Bishop was just happy the ambulance which had sat, engine running at his takeoff, was not needed this day.
	www.virginiabader.com /lonewolfatdawn.html (5091 words)

	William "Billy" Avery Bishop
		William "Billy" Avery Bishop, the accredited Canadian flying ace of World War I, was born on February 8, 1894 in Owen Sound, Ontario.
		William, the middle child of three children, grew up in Owen Sound in a house that is now the Billy Bishop Heritage Museum.
		In 1916, Bishop was transferred out of ground war and into the air as an observer, shown by the one winged insignia on his uniform.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/ManitobaCrafts/famousnamesquilt/billybishop.html (874 words)

	Billy Bishop
		Bishop was a bad student and a clumsy pilot, but even after a few crash landings graduated and received his "wings" after a only four hours of flying time.
		Bishop dove on the Albatross and promptly fired a round of shots along the fuselage, the Albatross dove away with Bishop following and firing.
		Bishop managed to land in the dark, undamaged beyond the German trenches and spend the night in his Nieuport.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jrm.rensen/wwar1/bishop/bbishop_e.html (1738 words)

	Legendary Canadian Ace Billy Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although Bishop was admittedly a heavy-handed pilot, that very characteristic seemed to give him the advantage in a dogfight, since he flew his little Nieuport and later the SE-5 with a certain sense of abandon.
		Bishop had planned to accompany Albert Ball on just such an early-morning raid, but Ball -- at that point the British empire's leading ace with 44 victories -- was killed on May 7.
		William Avery Bishop; The Courage of the Early Morning, by William Arthur Bishop; and William Avery "Billy" Bishop, by David Baker.
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	William "Billy" Bishop
		William Avery Bishop, the son of W.A. Bishop, Registrar of Grey county, Ontario, was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on 8 February 1894.
		Bishop's injured knee still gave him trouble and he was admitted to hospital and remained unfit for operational flying until September, when he went home to Canada for convalescent leave.
		Bishop started his first attack along the line of aircraft, spraying bullets as he streaked across the field through a barrage of small arms fire from the alert ground defences.
	www.billybishop.net /bishop1.html (4182 words)

	William Avery Bishop
		In July 1915 Bishop applied for transfer to the RFC as an observer, rather than wait for possible acceptance as a pilot, and on 1 September reported to 21 (Training) Squadron at Netheravon for elementary air instruction.
		Bishop circled and fired off a succession of Very Light signal flares; then landed and greeted his "welcoming committee' of mechanics by extending three fingers of one hand excitedly to indicate his three victories.
		Captain William Avery Bishop, Canadian Cavalry and R.F.C. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, While in a single-seater he attacked three hostile machines, two of which he brought down, although in the meantime he was himself attacked by four other hostile machines.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/bishop.html (3861 words)

	Bishop, William Avery
		Bishop, William Avery, "Billy," fighter pilot (b at Owen Sound, Ont 8 Feb 1894; d at Palm Beach, Fla 10 Sept 1956).
		After the war Bishop and W.G. operated a commercial flying enterprise before Bishop went into sales promotion in England and Canada.
		However, the senators were unable to demonstrate that Bishop's claims were valid, and consequently recommended only that the film be labelled as "docu-drama." This was done.
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	Billy Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is all about Canadian ace pilot William Avery "Billy" Bishop, who fought in World War II and helped in World War II.
		William Avery "Billy" Bishop is a famous Canadian ace pilot.
		Bishop missed the second one, but he made it swerve and crash into a tree.
	parkcrest.sd41.bc.ca /Research/billybishop.htm (419 words)

	Bishop, William Avery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, "Billy" Bishop flew with the Royal Flying Corps.
		Bishop, the greatest Commonwealth "Ace" of the war, did not arrive in France as a pilot until 1917, when he single-handedly crossed the enemy lines near Cambrai, France, and shot down three German aircraft.
		Bishop's endeavours on that summer morning were witnessed by Spencer Horn, who with two other pilots, later surveyed the damage.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /COURAGE/bishopwilliamavery.html (78 words)

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		Bishop heard the tracers tear through his lower left wingtip as he got in a short burst himself.
		Bishop learned the skills of wireless transmission in Morse code, dropping hand-held bombs, spotting for artillery, aerial photography and formal observation.
		So, early in the morning on June 2, his day off flying, Bishop set out on what was to become his most famous sortie.
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	Billy Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bishop saw his first aircraft while trying to extricate his horse from the mud of the Aldershot plain.
		Billy Bishop was extremely keen on flying and in relatively short order was given a “roving commission” that permitted him to fly his Nieuport serial number B1566 wherever and whenever he chose.
		Bishop was then attached to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he lobbied for an increase in U.S. aircraft and aircrew production.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/50-53.htm (1107 words)

	William Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bishop was the brother-in-law of Canadian ace Henry Burden.
		Captain Bishop, who had been sent out to work independently, flew first of all to an enemy aerodrome; finding no machine about, he flew on to another aerodrome about three miles south-east, which was at least twelve miles the other side of the line.
		One of the machines got oft the ground, but at a height of sixty feet Captain Bishop fired fifteen rounds into it at very close range, and it crashed to the ground.
	www.theaerodrome.com /aces/canada/bishop.html (866 words)

	Billy Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		William Avery Bishop was born at Owen Sound, Ontario.
		Bishop was involved in one of the few recorded duels between great aces of the war.
		Bishop met the new challengers and all began firing, twisting, turning, and struggling to gain an advantage.
	www.acepilots.com /wwi/can_bishop.html (1711 words)

	British Aces of WW1 - William Bishop
		Bishop attended the Royal Military College before joining the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles at the beginning of the war.
		As the commanding officer of the "Flying Foxes," he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after scoring 25 victories in just twelve days.
		Before the war ended, he wrote "Winged Warfare," an autobiographical account of his exploits in the air over France.Because Bishop flew many of his patrols alone, most of his victories were never witnessed.
	www.wwiaviation.com /aces/ace_billy_bishop.html (532 words)

	Bravery 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		illiam Avery Bishop was a Canadian soldier in World War I. He was probably the most spectacular fighter in the world.
		Bishop was born at Owen Sound, Ontario, on February 8, 1894, he entered the Royal Military College in 1912.
		Billy Bishop started later in the War than many famous pilots of that War, but he quickly became the best of the best.
	www.occdsb.on.ca /~sel/hero/brave3.htm (285 words)

	Heritage-10-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For his bravery in the air, Toronto-born William Avery Bishop became the first man in military history to receive the British Empire’s three highest decorations in one ceremony.
		Bishop relied on Corporal Walter Bourne, a conscientious British mechanic, to keep the Nieuport — particularly its temperamental Le Rhone rotary engine — in fighting shape.
		Bishop and his fellow airmen found the plane highly maneuverable, despite its tendency to shed its wings in a speed dive.
	www.leachintl.com /heritage/heritage-10-2000.html (496 words)

	Billy Bishop
		Prior to becoming a pilot, Bishop was a reluctant member of the Canadian cavalry.
		He was inspired to learn to fly after seeing an airplane land and take off.
		Bishop was the top ace of the British Empire in World War I. Credited with shooting down 72 enemy airplanes in WWI.
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	Bishop, William Avery -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The last direct descendant of King Kamehameha I, Bernice P. Bishop was raised with her adoptive sister, who later became Queen Liliuokalani.
		Born in 1831 in Honolulu, Hawaii, she attended the Royal School and married Charles Bishop, an American banker and philanthropist, in 1850.
		The British novelist William Golding won the Nobel prize for literature in 1983 for his novels dealing with the human condition.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9317544?tocId=9317544 (642 words)

	Civilization.ca - Treasures Gallery - Portraits of Billy Bishop
		He went overseas as an officer with the Canadian Mounted Rifles, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and served as an observer in reconnaissance aircraft before training as a pilot.
		William Avery Bishop was an international hero honoured with many decorations, notably the Victoria Cross, for his daring exploits and coolness in combat.
		During the Second World War Air Marshal Bishop was active in RCAF recruiting drives and inspired many young men who sought to emulate his deeds.
	www.civilization.ca /tresors/treasure/287eng.html (156 words)

	B Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		William Barker enlisted in the First Canadian Mounted Rifles in December, 1914 and arrived in England the following summer.
		During his career as a WWI pilot, Bishop downed numerous hostile aircraft and was honoured for his bravery, skill and determination.
		William Brenton Boggs, O.C., O.B.E., B.Eng.(Mech.), of Toronto, ON.
	www.cahf.ca /members/B_members.htm (3690 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Making of Billy Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While his bravery never comes into question (Bishop was as courageous as any of the men who risked their lives in those early warplanes) his credibility as a storyteller does.
		Greenhous reveals many startling truths: he presents evidence that some of the medals Bishop wore late in his career were unearned, uncovers a number of examples of Bishop embellishing or inventing combat stories, and, most significantly, shows that the only account of the ace's raid on the German airfield came from Bishop himself.
		Twenty years ago, a documentary film questioning Bishop's credentials as a hero was considered so blasphemous that a senate investigation was launched in an attempt to restore the pilot's name.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/155002390X (478 words)

	William Avery Billy Bishop, V.C.
		William Avery Billy Bishop, V.C. Billy Bishop dedicated his life to aviation.
		We honour Billy Bishop for his heroic service in the cause of freedom, and for his contributions to the orderly development of the aerial highways that benefit people throughout the world.
		The Billy Bishop Heritage Museum is dedicated to the legacy of William Avery "Billy" Bishop, V.C. Bishop vs the Red Baron!
	www.billybishop.org /bishop.html (197 words)

	Air Marshall William Bishop VC
		Billy Bishop is probable Canada's best known First World War Flying Ace.
		In addition to his Victoria Cross he was also awarded the Companion of the Most Honourable Order the Bath (UK), the DSO and Bar, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Croix de Guerre avec Palmes and Legion d'Honneur (France).
		But he earned the distrust of some of his comrades, they believed he had become too ambitious and may have made up the attack.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /VC_Recipients/billy_bishop.htm (566 words)

	The War Amps: Canada's Military Heritage - First World War Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		William Bishop, one of Canada's most highly decorated serviceman and winner of Canada's first air Victoria Cross.
		As the commanding officer of the "Flying Foxes," he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) after scoring 25 victories in just 12 days.
		Before the war ended, he found time to write "Winged Warfare," an autobiographical account of his exploits in the air over France.
	www.waramps.ca /military/bios/bishop.html (192 words)

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