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He went through all the emotions of throwing a live grenade, and endangered neither himself nor us. The empty grenade was then picked up and treated as a 'dud, i.e. one that had misfired. Between October 7 and October 21, 477 new men went through the bombing course, and nearly a thousand grenades were fired. Shortly after this Sergt.
"I hear you hail from the fighter strip near Diss." "That was our outfit," Stan said. "I just got a new roommate who says he's a Yank who was stationed at Diss," the Britisher grinned. "He got shot down a while back. He just came out of a hospital. Got a bad rap on the head." "We'd like to meet him. He must be one of the boys we lost on our first bombing coverage." Stan got to his feet.
The unexpectedness, to use no stronger term, of life in the R.F.C. in war-time is well exemplified by the adventure which befell Major Rees. The pilot of a "fighter", he saw what he took to be a party of air machines returning from a bombing expedition.
In October, 1917, 113 tons, and for a period of six days in March, 1918, 95 tons, of explosives were dropped. This illustrates the enormous progress of bombing which was so largely resorted to in the later stages of the war.
Then Tam, looking down, saw one of the bombing machines turn out of the line, and at the same time Blackie signaled, "Cover stragglers." The squadron was now well behind the British lines, but they were south of the aerodrome, having changed direction to meet the attacks.
With a view to enlarging the field of observation, staggered planes were introduced in the B.E.2c. During 1915 the B.E.2c was used for all purposes, but the extra loading involved by the increasing use of aeroplanes for bombing and fighting caused a decrease in the rate of speed and climb, and our aeroplanes were temporarily inferior in fighting power to the Fokker.
"First bit of marine fighting we've done yet," laughed Frank. "We can say now that we belong to both branches of the service." "All we need now is a fight in the air to make the thing complete," said Bart, "and we came pretty near to that, too, when we were with Dick that time in his bombing machine."
The night, though foggy, was sufficiently starlight to aid in his sense of direction. It was hardly likely that there would be further bombing raids that night, but one was never certain what the Boches might attempt. Witness their recent raid upon the old chateau, although they might know that planes had recently landed there.
At each of these times three machines, each carrying eight twenty-pound bombs, will bomb respectively P , C , H ." Thus the operation order read one evening in France. Just an ordinary order too, for bombing is carried out day and night incessantly.
The suggestion to bomb the Germans out was not practicable. Our guns were too few to cope with the powerful German artillery, although well served. Company Sergeant-Major De Harte came up from the trenches along with the ration party at eight o'clock and told me the story of the gassing and bombing in the morning.
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