Captain Norman Craig Millman was a Canadian

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

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credited with six aerial victories., "Norman Millman"
at ''theaerodrome.com''. Retrieved 26 November 2017. He joined the

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in May 1916. He began his pilot's career as an instructor and test pilot. He was posted to 48 Squadron to fly a

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on 20 August 1917. He became a flight commander, then rose to command the unit. While there, he drove six enemy planes down out of control between 11 November 1917 and 8 March 1918. He left the squadron in May 1918, and became an instructor back in England.

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