Captain Eric Guy Brookes was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Brookes was a Sopwith Camel pilot with 65 Squadron. He garnered four victories between 25 May and 2 July 1918. By the beginning of August, he was an acting captain, and on the 3rd was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Midday on 8 August, he, Lieutenant Joseph Leonard Maries White, and three other pilots managed to force down two German Fokker D.VII fighters behind Allied lines, where they were captured. Brookes did not return from a later mission that day.
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| - Captain Eric Guy Brookes was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Brookes was a Sopwith Camel pilot with 65 Squadron. He garnered four victories between 25 May and 2 July 1918. By the beginning of August, he was an acting captain, and on the 3rd was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Midday on 8 August, he, Lieutenant Joseph Leonard Maries White, and three other pilots managed to force down two German Fokker D.VII fighters behind Allied lines, where they were captured. Brookes did not return from a later mission that day.
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| - Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
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| - Harbonnieres, Somme, France
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| - Captain Eric Guy Brookes was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Brookes was a Sopwith Camel pilot with 65 Squadron. He garnered four victories between 25 May and 2 July 1918. By the beginning of August, he was an acting captain, and on the 3rd was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Midday on 8 August, he, Lieutenant Joseph Leonard Maries White, and three other pilots managed to force down two German Fokker D.VII fighters behind Allied lines, where they were captured. Brookes did not return from a later mission that day.
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