The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1916-11-17
AvIATORS FEAR
FLAMING ONIONS
British FIiers Describe Perils Of
Exploding Shells From De-
tense Guns.
NOW have THE SUPREMACY
Germans Seldom or Never Fly Over
Allied Lines In Frznee-Maehins
10 Hit Eighty Times--Air.
0ets In Way.

you can't Bee 'em or hear en-" said
''Tompy" Brennan OF the Royal Fly.
Ing corps, but any man who tells you
he can fiy over an Archie and got
flaming onion right ahead of him
without ducking and wishing they
wouldn't come so close or make so
much noise has never been up In an
aeroplane. Take II from me-"
"Yes," put In Gilray. and every time
yea d2ck your old winger ducks with
you. As 'Bren' over there says. Il
wouldn't be 10 bad II you couldn't see
and hear EN-. Generally speaking you
don't hear them unless one happens to
break within 80 yards or 50 OF you. It's
when you get down close to them and
look right down at them splitting fire
at you. that you have got to have every
nerve In your body tuned to the
minute"
"rll never forget the FIRST time they
got close TO me- declared Boy Tylie.
"My only thought was that would
never shoot pheasant again. knew
exactly how a bird must feel when a
hunter opens fire."
Machine Ht Eighty Times.
Brennan wore upon his left sleeve
the gold stripe OF the wounded. gil"
had been ON the official list OF the
killed In action some weeks ago, but
somehow or other came back to life.
When Brennan was 'hit" aud finally
came down safely within his lines, II
was found there were no less than 30
perforations In the wings Of his ma
chine.
Il was 80 interested In looking over
their trenches l guess ! got little too
low" he explained.
There Is nothing more interesting In
oil London than 10 sit through a long
autumn evening talking to the young
sters OF the wonderful aviation service
Great Britain has built up since the
war began.
We've got the German now where
they have TO fire blindly or shoot by
the map" these intrepid men Of the
air viii tell you. "0f what use are
their wonderful guns II they don't
know what they are shooting att
They don't dare send plane over our
lines They don't even dare approach
The minute they show themselves we
have an overwhelming number Of ma-
chimes to send after them and they
beat II for home again as fast as they
can 90. They can't take photograph
OF our new positions. Their batteries
have been driven from the heights and
they can't observe. II IL big diff
ference from the FIRST days Of the
war
Assccia ting much with Britain's fly
inS men one will soon learn tina, an
Archibald" usually called Archie
for short. Is an anti-alrcraft gun.
The Air Gets In the Way.
Archie barks at you" said Rren-
nan. He goes woof. wootr He isn't
comfortable to listen to either, but lis
when you get down little neaE~v 10
earth and the machine guns get to
working that you feel Jon have got
to % what you set out to DO right
quietly and get started to some quiet
sr spot Just ~ fast ~ the cir win set
cot Of your way and let ycu through.
You cant imagine bow much that old
atmosphere gets In your way when yca
are really In hurry.
when you ut On speaking terms
with q machine gun you know that II
TALKS with . ,puet, puts. patti The
ordinary hand Eiae. which aften takes
= shot At yea whsn ycu get too close
10 the trenches, goes crack. crack.
crack jdx - every ope expects =
ytnA 10 10.