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Their final comment was the one we all had heard so many times, "I always thought these people who reported flying saucers were crazy, but now I don't know." When Lieutenant Rothstien returned to Dayton he triple-checked with the CAA for aircraft in the area but there were none. Could there have been airplanes in the area that CAA didn't know about? The answer was almost a flat "No."
No attempt was made to do any bombing of our positions by the Zeppelins although we occasionally received visits from bombing airplanes. The night before I left France, the last time, they dropped several bombs on the village of Ecoviers where I was staying.
After studying the movies for several weeks, the Air Force photo lab at Wright Field gave up. All they had to say was, "We don't know what they are but they aren't airplanes or balloons, and we don't think they are birds."
German scientists had studied Roumanian weather conditions and von Mackensen attacked while the roads were at their best and the weather most favorable. As the Germans swept forward, spies met them giving them military information of the utmost value. A swarm of airplanes spied out the movements of the Roumanians and no Roumanian airplanes rose to meet them.
There were a thousand men gathered about and the cornet began where the band had left off, thrilling out between the roar of guns. Up above were the airplanes throbbing back and forth, and signal lights were flashing. It was a strange place for a meeting. The men gathered closer to see what was going on.
About noon, as we drove through a little town, I saw, for the first time, a whole flock of airplanes riding the sky. They were swooping about like lazy hawks, and a bonnie sight they were. I drew a long breath when I saw them, and turned to my friend Adam. "Well," I said, "I think we're coming to it, now!" I meant the front the real, British front.
But even though horse thieves are riding boldly and laughing as they ride, you cannot expect the bullets to fly when honest men have not yet discovered that they are being robbed. Johnny never dreamed that duty called him out on the range that night. He went to bed with his brain a whirligig in which airplanes revolved dizzily, and the marauders rode unhindered to wherever they were going.
Then thousands of fresh troops were marched up and placed under the cover of the woods. These men marched up at night, so as not to be seen by Hun airplanes.
In the career of Guynemer nothing was left to chance, and everything won by effort, pursuit, and implacable will. On Sunday, December 5, 1915, as he was making his rounds in the Compiègne region, he saw two airplanes more than 3000 meters above Chauny. As the higher one flew over Bailly he sprang upon it and attacked it: at 50 meters, fifteen shots from his machine-gun; at 20 meters, thirty shots.
But it was not a personal letter, which of course made a difference. She finally read it; twice, to be exact. Its meaning was not clear to Mary V, but she saw that it had to do with airplanes, or at least with certain parts of an airplane.
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