Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

of the line, he must needs keep an
eye on his map. If he loses himself
on his map, he certainly is a gone
goose. So l flew around looking
over the country, impressing the To-
cation of large forests and rivers in
my mind, as that is all one can sec
at our usual flying height of 5000
meters. It's almost impossible to
find a road at that height, camou-
flaged as they are, tand as for arail-
road, I've given up trying to look for
them, as l never can find them. l
had been flying around this way for
some fifteen minutes when L sud
denly saw big biplane coming to-
ward me from the direction of The
front.
A Fresh Humorist
Not knowing whether it was
French or Boche / climbed into the
sun to have g. look. 1t turned out
to be French so / swung around and
continued On my tour of inspection,
when l noticed another big plane
Immediately overhead. However. !
knew that was a French plant. right
away, but as he was only some hun
dred meters above me, l kept an eye
on him. 1T was we'll did, for when
directly over me he stood up on one
came diving head first down on me.
l did not know what the Sam Hill
the big idea was. Maybe he thought
l was a Hun, or he may have only
been amusing himself. Nevertheless
/ lost no time in getting out from
under, for with such a big plane
there was no telling whether he was
out of control or playing. AS he
went on down and landed then /
dove for home myself.
Pool Shooting i'm Clouds
Coming down over the "piste"
opened fire with both guns on q
small pool OF water situated in the
middle of the field. Golly! you
should have seen the water fly! [
was particularly interested in seeing
If my telescope sight was regulated
right, also whether my balloon gun
was in good working order. 1t sure
was, for it was a sight for sore eyes
to see those flaming bullets go hiss
ing into the water. They did not all
go in the pool, of course, some land
ing alongside, setting fire to the
grass in "A number of places. The
French pilots are still kidding me
about my craftsmanship, saying |
actually killed two fishes, that being
the number of holes in the target
which was floating in the water.
However, it was not big pool, and
| am satisfied that if i group my
bullets as we'll when shooting at
balloon it will surely burn.
This morning I made my first pa
troll over our new lines. l wasted no
time in looking for Boche, letting
that duty to my lieutenant. 1 was
more interested in studying my map.
Thus we got down near our old
hunting ground at Rheims, and
saw my leader suddenly dive. l
promptly followed, looking around
meanwhile to see the object of the
dive. Far. far below I saw four
planes. but they looked like Spads to
me, which they were, as the lieu
tenant pulled up and started home
soon after, as we had been out over
two hours then.
Guardian Angel on Job
When I arrived at the home roost
I found 1t was not the four Spads
the lieutenant was diving on. He h.. 1
seen biplnne Boche right over me,
and since his motor was not power
full enough TO pull him up to tho
Boche's heights, he dove in the hope
that I would follow and thus get out
of danger. And all the time / had
been ambling along, all my attention
being concentrated on reading my
map, blissfully ignorant of the mem
ace overhead! Truly my guardian
angel has not fallen down on the job.
eh Dad?
WALTER.