The final book of narrative in this seven volume official history of the RAF in the Great War brings to a conclusion the story of the war operations and developments of the air service with narratives dealing with the events leading to the creation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918; with supply and manpower problems; the genesis and work of the Independent Force and the campaigns in 1918 in Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Syria, in Persia, Mesopotamia, and Russian Azerbaijan, in Macedonia and Italy. Also covered are air actions throughout the war in India, naval aircraft co-operation in 1918 in home waters and in the Mediterranean, and the Allied offensives on the Western Front leading to final victory in November 1918.