William Avery Billy Bishop was one of the greatest fighter pilots of the British commonwealth. As a boy growing up, Billy practiced shooting moving targets. At the age of 17, he was attending the Royal Military College (RMC), but had failed his first year there. When the World War One broke out in 1914, Billy had left the RMC and joined the Mississauga Horse Regiment, he was commissioned as an officer but was ill with pneumonia when the regiment was sent overseas. After Bishop had recovered, he then transferred to the 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles, then he was stationed in London, Ontario. Billy had then left Canada for England on June 9th, 1915, but then in July (1915), he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer, due to frustration with the mud of the trenches and the lack of action in the calvary. On September 1st, Billy had reported 21 (fighter pilots training) in 1916, and flew his first aircarft (Avro 504) The first fight Billy was in, was in March 1917. Billy first shot down one plane (a German plane), the later destroyed 13 planes (within a five day period). Bishop had attacked a German air base near Cambrai, France. Two planes had chased Billy, buh he shot down both, and then two more had came to attack, one had fallen, taken from a shot of his gun (deadly fire), the other plane had driven off. Billy returned home safely. Their was also another time when the German ground guns had hit Billy's fuel tank, with his plane on fire, he still made it back to Allied territory, but had crashed into a tree. It had been raining, so the rain had set the fire out that was on Billy's plane, but he was badly shaken. At the end of war, Billy was rewarded the Victoria Cross by Britain, and had achieved the highest honours of France. He was one of the three Allied Air Aces. Billy had bacome a director of recruiting for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940.