Project Gutenberg 2014-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 220 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 Reading ease score: 76.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure 415348 2025-08-18T12:53:06.325043 text/html 397839 2024-10-24T07:25:40 text/html 1741878 2025-08-18T12:53:13.877963 application/epub+zip 1736003 2025-08-18T12:53:07.745044 application/epub+zip 257004 2025-08-18T12:53:06.935007 application/epub+zip 2761523 2025-08-18T12:53:18.432933 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2716612 2025-08-18T12:53:12.994012 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 320459 2022-09-20T19:48:16.040956 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 350903 2025-08-18T12:53:05.417049 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 330835 2024-10-24T07:25:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17503 2025-08-18T12:53:18.587984 application/rdf+xml 28908 2025-08-18T12:53:07.043981 image/jpeg 3967 2025-08-18T12:53:06.990983 image/jpeg 1669763 2025-08-18T12:53:06.386015 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia