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...passing the time training and hardening up, occasionally getting actual experience where 'make-believe' no longer holds. I personally am to be the aerial observer of an infantry contact machine, a duty that to me is as interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing...
Colonel Rees has been in active service during the greater part of the war, and his exploits in the air have won for him the Victoria Cross, the highest honor obtainable in the British Army. He will discuss fully the tactics used in aerial warfare...
...recent raids on England by German aerial forces have inspired in the attacked country a cry for retaliation. Let the German unprotected towns be shattered by the bombs of English raiders, and German women and children die as have the English, by that blind destruction against which there is no defence...
...requirements to enter one of these seven schools are that the men must be between 21 and 30 years of age, that they must pass physical examinations, and that each man must have received a three-years college education or its equivalent. The course will include the theory of aerial dynamics, lectures relative to aeronautics, the scientific theory of aerial flight, wind pressure, the action of internal combustion engines, and a general knowledge of preliminary mathematics. Many new scientific instruments will be given to the school by the Government...
Word has been received from Paris that Ronald Wood Hoskier '18, of the American Esquadrille of the French Flying Corps now serving in France, was killed in an aerial combat last Tuesday. He was a corporal, and had on repeated occasions distinguished himself for daring and brilliancy of operation. During the offensive that is now in progress, Hoskier engaged a German "Taube" and was seen to fall with his airplane, landing within the German lines...