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W.E. JOHNS IN THE

Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette

& the Air Training Corps Gazette

A GUIDE TO THE WORK OF W. E. JOHNS (INCLUDING THE ONE "BIGGLES" STORY SERIALISED) IN THESE WARTIME PERIODICALS

Volume 1 Issue 1 June 1939 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 2 July 1939 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 3 August 1939 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 4 September 1939 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content
Volume 1 Issue 5 October 1939 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 6 January 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 7 March 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 1 Issue 8 May 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content
NB – DUE TO WARTIME PAPER SHORTAGES THERE WERE NO ISSUES OF THE AIR DEFENCE CADET CORPS GAZETTE PUBLISHED IN THE MONTHS OF NOVEMBER 1939 DECEMBER 1939 FEBRUARY 1940 APRIL 1940 JUNE 1940	Volume 1 Issue 9 July 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette No W. E. Johns Content	Volume 2 Issue 1 August 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Article - What Makes The Air Ace?	Volume 2 Issue 2 September 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 1
Volume 2 Issue 3 October 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 2 Article – Gaolbreakers All	Volume 2 Issue 4 November 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 3 Article – Can You Spot Them?	Volume 2 Issue 5 December 1940 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 4 Article – History Repeats Itself	Volume 2 Issue 6 January 1941 Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 5 Article – Nice Going
There was no February 1941 issue as the Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette was reorganised into the Air Training Corps Gazette	Volume 1 Issue 1 March 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 6 Article – To Bale or Not to Bale?	Volume 1 Issue 2 April 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Biggles Flies Alone (Biggles Defies the Swastika) Part 7 Article – A1 or C3?	Volume 1 Issue 3 May 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette ‘The Coming of Carrington*’ (Spitfire Parade) (*A rewrite of “Hard Case Carrington” from the October 1939 issue of ‘Air Stories’) Article – Long Drops
Volume 1 Issue 4 June 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette The Arrival of Angus* (Spitfire Parade) (*A rewrite of “Flying Luck” from issue 337 of ‘The Modern Boy’)	Volume 1 Issue 5 July 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Two Good Turns (A one page Biggles short story, part of ‘The Record Breakers*’ from Spitfire Parade) (*A rewrite of “Biggles’ Sky High Hat Trick” from issue 339 of ‘The Modern Boy’) Article – He Built an Aeroplane	Volume 1 Issue 6 August 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Dark Work	Volume 1 Issue 7 September 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – More Tricks of the Trade
Volume 1 Issue 8 October 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – The Lessons of War	Volume 1 Issue 9 November 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – On Holding Bridges	Volume 1 Issue 10 December 1941 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Desert Flight	Volume 2 Issue 1 January 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Handsome is as Handsome Does
Volume 2 Issue 2 February 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – The Officer’s Mess	Volume 2 Issue 3 March 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Covercraft and Cumulus	Volume 2 Issue 4 April 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Hot Fury or Cold Logic	Volume 2 Issue 5 May 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Gliding Grows Up
Volume 2 Issue 6 June 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – A Tradition Worth Maintaining	Volume 2 Issue 7 July 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Aid to Russia in ‘08	Volume 2 Issue 8 August 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – The Petrol Glider	Volume 2 Issue 9 September 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – The Dragon Has Wings
Volume 2 Issue 10 October 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – U-Boat Hunting	Volume 2 Issue 11 November 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Flying on a String	Volume 2 Issue 12 December 1942 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – So it Can Be Done	Volume 3 Issue 1 January 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Gone With The Wind
Volume 3 Issue 2 February 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette No Article	Volume 3 Issue 3 March 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – And See the World	Volume 3 Issue 4 April 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Shooting a Line	Volume 3 Issue 5 May 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette No Article
Volume 3 Issue 6 June 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Men You May Meet	Volume 3 Issue 7 July 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Two Articles (!) – Land of the Lily The Truth About the Turret	Volume 3 Issue 8 August 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – They Also Serve	Volume 3 Issue 9 September 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Battle of Britain
Volume 3 Issue 10 October 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette No Article	Volume 3 Issue 11 November 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette Article – Flying Through the Red Tape	Volume 3 Issue 12 December 1943 Air Training Corps Gazette No Article	From January 1944 onwards There were no further articles by W. E. Johns in the Air Training Corps Gazette In June 1946 this periodical became Vol 1 No 1 of the Air Reserve Gazette

The copyright in all of W.E. Johns work is owned by the estate of W.E. Johns as represented by W. E. Johns (Publications) Limited.

This private limited company have appointed literary agent Pat White of Rogers Coleridge White to represent the interests of the estate. Their web site is here: http://www.rcwlitagency.com/

This is a non profit making fan based web site purely for the information of fellow fans - no infringement of copyright is intended.

The intention of this web site is to encourage people to read the works of William Earl Johns, one of the great authors of the 20th Century.

Don’t forget to visit Biggles.Com and W. E. Johns.Com for information about W. E. Johns books

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This webpage was launched on 16th September 2012 - the 94th anniversary of the day that

Flying Officer W.E. Johns was shot down and his gunner, Second Lieutenant A. E. Amey, was killed.

On 16^th September 1918 – 2^nd Lt. W. E. Johns was flying a De Havilland DH 4, number F5712, from Azelot Aerodrome in France,

where his squadron, No. 55 Sqn of the RAF were stationed. He was flying on a bombing raid to the Linz Works near Mannheim. His fuel tank was hit by an anti aircraft shell and

he was attacked by Fokker DVII fighters. He was shot down near Altekendorf at 13.30 on 16^th September 1918 by Lt. Georg Weimer of Jasta 3 who was credited with the 7^th of his eventual 9^th victories.

W. E. Johns crash landed near the village Alteckendorf only to find that his gunner was already dead. Johns himself was held prisoner by the Germans until the end of the war some two months later.