Summary: World War I pilot Clayton Knight reminisces about his training and hair-raising service on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918. Knight was one of the first 150 American aviators who were sent to Europe in the summer of 1917. In this recording he discusses his training, including staying in digs at a number of Oxford Colleges, before recounting a number of hair-rising stories about his service with the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, being shot down by Oberleutnant Harald Auffahrt on 5 October 1918 and finishing the war as prisoner of war in a German hospital. Knight later went onto be a noted aeronautical illustrator, including providing the drawings for the comic strip Ace Drummond. Please note, due to the age of this recording, there are issues with the sound quality of this recording. The podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS and it was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.
