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On a certain section of this coast the Germans have erected a series of Zeppelin hangars behind one of the most elaborate systems of defenses known at present.
Far away from the greystone wings, the dark cedars, the faultless gravel drives, and the mint-sauce lawns of Holt Hangars runs a river called the Hudson, whose unkempt banks are covered with the palaces of those wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.
Bombs were dropped upon the hangars and aviation camp at Habsheim. The munition factories at Dietweiler, and the railway station in Walheim. The station at Bensdorf and the barracks at the same place were shelled from the air. Much damage was done.
"The latest data show that Germany has sixty stations, including private dirigible hangars, while France has thirty, in most cases of greater extent than those in Germany, Russia, eight months ago, had ten, but it is believed that this number has been increased twofold since that time. "The two principal Belgian centers are at Brasschaet, near Antwerp, and Etterbeck, near Brussels.
It was cold and dank in the dawn light at this altitude, but he wanted to know what that completely unbelievable roar had been. A crane beam by the hangars tilted down, slowly, and then lifted as if released of a great weight. The light was growing slowly brighter. Joe saw something on the ground. Rather, it was not quite on the ground. It rested on something on the ground.
There was no feeling of shrinking from the awful reality of actual war, now that it came nearer and nearer to them. They were of sound stuff, to a man. The wooden huts that were to be their homes for a time were clean and dry, and the big barn-like hangars that stood near had a serviceable look about them.
Late that night it had reached one of the huge airdromes, the vastness of which unfolded itself to the astonished gaze of the boys at daybreak of the morning after. They had not dreamed that such acres and acres of hangars existed along the whole front. The war in the air assumed new proportions to them. They were housed in huts, warm and dry, if not palatial.
"Unless we get some to-day," observed Tom as he and his chum hurried toward the hangars where their machines were being made ready for them. "Get news to-day? What makes you think we shall?" asked Jack. "Well, we might bring down a Fritzie or two who'd know something about poor Harry," was the answer. "You never can tell." "No, that's so," agreed Jack. "Well, here's hoping we'll have luck."
The wide aerodrome stretches before us great hangars coloured so as to escape the notice of a Boche overhead with machines of all sizes, rising and landing coming out of the hangars, or returning to them for the night. Two of the officers in charge meet us, and I walk round with them, looking at the various types some for fighting, some for observation; and understanding what I can!
Perhaps, dreaming of the Iron Cross and his Gretchen, he took a chance and then swift death and a grave in the shell-strewn soil of Douaumont. Generally the escadrille is relieved by another fighting unit after two hours over the lines. We turn homeward, and soon the hangars of our field loom up in the distance.
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