Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-15

we are kept pretty busy. am in squadron of two-seated fighters, big. powerful machines, which at present can do better work than any German machine. The pilot runs the machine and has two guns firing through the front and the gunner in the back seat has a movable machine gun to operate as we'll I am pretty well satisfied with the job Fighting machines sound dangerous but actually you are safer in that than any other kind 0f aviation at the front Ore of our big, bombing machines, flown by a pilot in training, got lost yesterday and he landed here. You can't imagine the size of it until you get up near it. could stand upright under it's bottom wings and the body is so big you can walk around in it. An ordinary plane along side it looks like a calf beside cow They carry tons of bombs, and you can imagine the hubbub they create when about a dozen of them giaus make a raid on German towns. l The Huns may brag of their fine ma chimes and Zeppelins and all that, but people don't realize that we have Ill l they have and go them one better ev- 1 cry time.
 It has been raining almost every other day since I've been out here. | April showers. I, suppose. But when the weather clears up and the sun comes out it's wonderful. The country 1 over here is really beautiful. Ii looks l awfuliy pretty from the air. I hear they are going to blow up part of the aerodome and plant crops, mostly po- tatoes there. I will have to work at l them at times when there is no flying. ! f hn incl ct wouldn't doubt it because food is al mighty important just now. Well, if 1 it comes to that, guess I'm as handy with hoe as with an aeroplane. But | don't think from this that I'm rotter 1 pilot If I were I would have killed myself long ago. They say it's the worst and the very best pilots who gel | it in the neck.
 It looks as if I'd be in Encland fol SIX or eight weeks more, so I'm O. K absolutely, until then-after which well-every man has to take his chances if he is any kind of man and I'm not worrying about myself Good bye for now, write as often a: you can.
 Royal Air Force,
 Port Meadof,
 Oxford, England
 April 27, 1918
 Dear Mother: I just got the frs
 of your letters yesterday and I sur
 was glad to hear from you. Over her
 they are recruiting young single wo man and wives whose husbands ar
 at the front into the Woman's Lam Army to work the farms Of cours
 the older men do the heaviest wor
 but these women are doing a good par of the farming. The scheme work
 well. They were recruiting here i
 Oxford for this Land Army yesterday and several machines from the aero drome flew over the city and dronDe leaflets, etc, to help recruiting. The
 have formed a women's branch of tn i army navy and air force. The wo men are doing most of the clerica i, work and driving the light trucks. an even the motorcycle despatcf rider
 here in England are girls. For instance
 was orderly officer for the day on
 day last week and had to go fror
 one nlace to another, inspecting tn guard, and the mems mess. etc. an had a motorcycle side car to take m , around, and one of these girls in khab , drove me about.
 You can see the change from ou
 old cadet life by my schedule for to day I got up at 7.45 this mornins Had breakfast at S.30. Reported my squadron commander at e.15. Wen } to classes from 9.s0 to 12.30. Fad Iunc ? at 1. am off now until 6.30 tonigh l when go down to fly until 8. Lou SC it doesn't get even dusky now mt
 S30 with this setting the clocks afea l an hour, and of course we have order 5 lies. most of them old soldiers wh l have been in the British army. ten an 7 some twenty years. They are sti l able to do something and so they .kee l them as officers orderlies. They thin
 lot of us young flying officers an l they do lot of errands for us, he f sides making our beds. cleaning th 5 rooms, etc. For instance. they loo 3 after our laundry. keep our books an v belts nicely polished and even wake u : up in the morning. I am afraid " g are getting to be a pampered buncl = These orderlies, go to France with |