The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-16

uOun, T fTance.-1HlS ATneTlCdH ny ing camp is the largest in France and is said to be greater than any other in the world.
 A flying field of 36 square miles, the area of an American county. with nine separate flying fields on which American aviators advance to the stage of flight combatants, and airplanes-Liberties, Nieuports, Cap ronis, and all the others with off, cers, instructors and newly equip ped aviators swelling our squadrons each month-these were some of the main features of this vast aviator ground . As The Associated Press cores pendent entered one of the fields a big gray machine rose from a nearby field with a loud droning noise
 There goes a Liberty airplane," said one of the officers. It was one of the fast-increasing number now coming, and every flight was watched with keenest interest and growing enthusiasm by those who will put it to the supreme test on the fighting front. Only one opinion was heard among these men, that it was the biggest and fastest ma chine of them all. It was doing wonders in quick ascent, and besides straight-away flight it had been put through all the intricacies of aero batic flight and had been pronounced equal to the whole range.
 Crops of aviators were lined up as we arrived, preparatory to taking the air. They were 1.-the, stocky, young men, like two football elevens about to take the field. The flying grounds stretched off for miles nine fields of four square miles each-all clean-cut stubble fields on which the machines could light with out shock. Above them circled countless planes, singly and in squad rons, dsSwn out like wild geese, looping 4hd diving and in all the evolutions of flight, with groups of acrobatic planes over to the right making headlong spirals, wing-slips and reversements
 In the foreground rose a city of barracks, one-story pine shacks 100 feet long, not very highly orna- mental, but very practical. Fully a thousand of these barracks had risen on this level plain to house the army of flying men on the way to the fighting line.
 We went from field to field to i iiotS Seeh SlaSS III lile ucNelOpEleHl of combat aviators. Generally speak ing, it was explained, there are three distinct branches of this avia- tion for warfare: Chase and combat working which most of the fighting occurs, bombardment of enemy forces, camps and towns, and scout ing or reconnaissance work for pur- poses of observation of enemy acti- vities. It is for combat and bom- bardment that the training is done here, and of those going forward monthly about four-fifths are com batants and one-fifth bombardment pilots. -.-.:
 ''These are the 'grasshoppers, said the captain as we came to field No. 1, where the initial ground work and theory of flight begins The grasshoppers were diminutive machines with just enough horse power to jump over the ground and occasionally rise ten feet. The men call them taxis and roulers. They were skipping about singly and in squads. Two were having a race across the plain, and one taking a dive, buried its nose in the ground. This was the circus part of flying, at the start, but there was plenty of very practical work beside, with motor instruction, gunnery, trap shooting, rifle range and machine gun firing. Small dummy enemy