Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-27
AMERICAN A|RMEN
BOMBING GERMANY
Give People of "Swineland"
i, Taste of War as Waged
-, by Them.
OSTEND AND ZEEBRUGGE HIT
bombs Dropped on From Thirty
~ to Forty Towns Every
Week.
0STEND AND zEEBRUGGE HIT
ny ID. VI. EDWARDS.

IVehins, sometimes early in the
morning, bombing airplanes and flying
boats rise and start to-, Germany or
German held ground.
me mancuver usually Is about the
same. The destructive machines sim
Ply start on. do their work and come
DHck. The only signal of the begin
s tsrmined young men Of the United
STATES naval air force walk quietly out
coat belts. They take kean look
OVER the machine which they are to
GUIDE up In the air, climb up over the
dusciage and then. without ceremony,
IL, her go.'
Is a roar from the motor The nyiug
boat goes off the water or land as the
The mechanics and the oGice &c a'''h in
charge stand watching the machine
S ALI IN the air and return to other
other machine and start it or. or three
machines. or five machines. or any mum
nrr: The machine, OFT In the distance,
GSnIcles rev times to get it's altitude
anen. IKE carrier pigeon, II settles
down for the objective
be- only half an hour. The airplane
comes back. the pilot vaults out and
mo We We dr9,ppsd tons, of bombs on
are beginning to give Germany this
ter. tern H., Continually now)..~e hit the
l.
way at -. landed direct hits on The
channel at -, blow up dock at
PEOPLE OF GERMANY
The young Americans are In the
stern business OF bombing the Ger
!nans' having always the naval view
ased ,owHs,as "t" par, he Of , haye da.y
Ih:y are giving the Hsps a taste Of
,ha (which Which The Germans inflicted on
She QUEENS OF London and Paris be-
fore the hand OF humanity was raised
sternly against them. They are bomb
nish ev spS hoss'oi IT, point OF vantage
reputation have begun to howl.
s,fueiion done a, zeebr TSEe S Sy de de
british navy is maintained In the sta
.Is quo by the airmen. Tons and tons
Of bombs dropped there have made IL
impossible for the Germans 10 make
su''lrieht rel airs TO put the channel in
s snosbnr , condition again. And Ostend.
'hno.her important base. Is also under
constant hammerIng from the clouds.
bulk OF Alta CKING
a. DONE ny BRITISH
No definite figures or exact dcs,ruc-
ton wrought may be told; hut IL has
been announced frequently that from
ihlr,y TO forty towns along the Swine.
This vast Air offensive gives only an
indication OF the real work before the
allied forces. The York is being done
ican force as yet. They are getting
started In the game. The British
saSts are doing the real. effective
army air forces ar. throwing in their
weight just US swiftly as ii can be
Yankee aviators and Yankee me-:
chimes arc appearing in large numbers
now Tor this important offensive. Great
In process of construction all over the
map. The stations are under the com
n mnnd Of C. GaP g,,st nov whose head
tion In magnificent bit of protecting
nature. Houses are being thrown up
oy the navy men for permanent head
required facility is being established
a readily: Theirs There Is an imposing thor
Hangers and airguns help to make
the layout complete. Machine shops
of every requirement. are busy. Lathes
who have been enlisted from automo.
bile and similar factories. There is
very little lost motion.
bombing projections, with great
trench tunnels, large dug-outs with
covering enough to ward of the largest
No airman has to work more than 90
only a few seconds to dart to safety fti
when the raiders come.
For being bombed is Just as much a
part Of the bomber's business as bomb
ing. And they have been bombed here
Germans have killed none of the air
men ,N which speaks It's own proof of
and protecting system.
said one of the cheers, as he pointed
speck in the east. Before the Hun
had assumed n very clearly defined
outline the air guns began TO pop at
ously close that the Hun turned and
headed back for safety behind the Ger
man lines. He knew wherever one of
would burst in few seconds.
GERMANS WILL NOT
FIGHT ON EVEN TERMS
He vas dying high said the on
couple over early this morning; but
they were driven back by the arches
to get real photograph. All we have
to do; anyway. Is to send up a single
machine against one, two or even three
battle If they see anything like even
ype OF hsy have n
at the time or not" ''''
The navy airn.en play n distinctly
An army airman is not trained as
specifically as a man who is working
over the wafer or along the coast. Nor
liable over the land, for they use a
different type of machine A navy
airman makes continual study of the
coast and coast conditions all the an
proaches to bases, weather conditions
which must be met every day, tida1
movements. routes Of ships, types of
merchant ships and the innumera BILE
types of warships
An army airman Is not in position
And tho lack Of this information might
be-the cause OF very costly error.
tion might be brought about.
.Supposing an airman. not being ia
miliar with all tho latest types Of war
vessels. should see German ships NOV
Ing out and should report merely:
Seven German warships moving to
sea." He does not specify whether
they arc torpedo boats. dAstroyers.
newer or later type, n onitors, Mver
mentors. cruisers. converted cruisers,
tcontinued on Third fage.)
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