Project Gutenberg 2014-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 41 Goldfrap, John Henry 1879 1917 Lawton, Captain Wilbur Deering, Fremont B. Payson, Howard Lawton, Wilbur Dexter J. Forrester West, Marvin Forrester, Dexter J. Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1880 1952 The Boy Aviators with the Air Raiders: A Story of the Great World War Produced by Demian Katz, Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "The Boy Aviators with the Air Raiders: A Story of the Great World War" by Captain Wilbur Lawton is a historical fiction novel likely written in the early 20th century. The story focuses on a group of young aviators, particularly two brothers named Frank and Harry, as well as their friend Pudge, who navigate the challenges and dangers of World War I aviation while trying to protect their innovative seaplane from enemy forces. At the start of the narrative, the boys are in Dunkirk, preparing for an important flight that could demonstrate their seaplane's capabilities to the French government. The opening sets up a tense atmosphere as the boys discuss potential German spies lurking nearby, suggesting that danger is imminent. Each character is well-established, with Frank emerging as the determined leader, Pudge as the comic relief and good-natured friend, and Billy providing a practical perspective; they discover evidence of espionage when suspicious wax is found on their padlock. As the boys ready themselves to safeguard their plane and conduct their test flight, they become acutely aware that they are playing a significant role in the larger conflict of the war, hinting at both adventure and peril that awaits them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45727/45727-h/images/cover.jpg en World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Fiction 415180 415190 2024-09-19T07:37:29.575263 2023-09-20T04:06:46.445458 text/html text/html 418060 2014-05-23T11:23:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 1610263 2014-05-23T11:23:48 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1741774 2024-09-19T07:37:37.980211 application/epub+zip 1736154 2024-09-19T07:37:30.961289 application/epub+zip 257077 2024-09-19T07:37:30.227310 application/epub+zip 2761597 2024-09-19T07:37:43.013199 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2716590 2024-09-19T07:37:36.911244 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 320459 2022-09-20T19:48:16.040956 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 351073 350857 2024-09-19T07:37:28.530324 2023-09-20T04:06:45.444477 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 350829 2014-05-23T11:23:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 130010 2014-05-23T11:23:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 350819 2014-05-23T11:23:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 129974 2014-05-23T11:23:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21258 2024-09-19T07:37:43.177190 application/rdf+xml 28908 2024-09-19T07:37:30.330260 image/jpeg 3967 2024-09-19T07:37:30.279272 image/jpeg 1669765 2024-09-19T07:37:29.641286 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia