most-to-be-feared

Updated: May 27, 2025

One day, in a letter written by a captured Boche airman, was found the sentence: "The most-to-be-feared of British machines is the S ." The umptieth squadron then had the only machines of this type in France. During the short period of their stay with us, the crowd of boys thus rudely snatched away were the gayest company imaginable; and, indeed, they were boys in everything but achievement.

Alan Bott - Cavalry of the Clouds