Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-01
ALL AIRPLANES
OCARRY BOMBS
Efficiency of Allied Flying
Squads Will be In
creased.

With the American Army In Eng.
land, July 15.-(Correspondence OF
the Associated Press.)-Almost every
airplane used by the Allies soon will
carry bombs. Experts in aerial war
fare are convinced that the general
efficiency of h corps will be increas-
ed If a bombing device is added to ev-
cry plane sent out, W. though 1t be
Of the type ono intended only for
~recogntzance 4 work, and Americans
now training in England are being as
carefully drilled in bombing as in
handling a machine gun
Lessons learned during the resist
ance offered in the recent offensive
have served to increase the already
highy regard Of both British and
American officers in the air service
for the lowfiying, bomb-carrying- craft.
and, over the camps and countryside
where aviators are being trained,
planes are in evidence almost every
hour, dipping down from high in the
air and skimming the nearby coun-
try, barely missing treetops and
houses. 1t Is the newer lesson they
are learning. and observers back from
the front where the Allied planes did
such remarkable 3 work not only in
scouting and distracting the enemy
but actually in breaking up forma-
tiops and at points checking the on
ward movement have urged concen-
tration on that form of training.
British trainers, detailed to Ameri-
can aviation camps. have been liberal
in their praise Of the new fiers from
overseas, their only criticism being
that the Americans are ga bit too
keen" Their tendency has been to go
in training but ven this the trainers
have admitted is a valuable fault, al
though one not to be encouraged.
1t has BEEN pointed out to the
Americans that team work as we'll as
individual efficiency is a prime re-
quisite and the Americans have
steadied themselves to the routine
then trainers have found makes, for
general advancement if not for indi-
vidual applause. Fancy flying, the ac-
robatic work that once found favor
and drew heavy. gate receipts at aerial
exhibitions in the United States, still
is taught but the learning Of that
form of flying also has come to be re-
garded merely as routine and wholly
incident to the steady, low flying de-
sirable for attacking camps and troops
In formation.
Accidents, have occurred in the
camps where the Americans are being
trained and a few men have been
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percentage is far less in England than
in n United States. Those in-training
here are inclined to attribute the diff
ference more to luck than to anything
else, although there also is pointed
out the probability that the average
airplane used in England is a better
made machine than the average that
has been used in the United States.
The bombing devices being attach
ed to virtually every plane is not the
continuance that was used in the
earlier days of the war. That used
then was little more than a mechan-
ism that released the p%rojectile, al
lowing it to fall at a point approx
mately near the target. The device
now being used is one with which the
operator may with much practice be-
come almost as proficient in marks
manship as IN artilleryman is with
his gun. Almost every light plane will
carry bombs of at least rs pounds and
from the heavier types there will be
hurled the huge containers Of high
explosive no materially different from
those used by the Germans, in some
OF the more recent raids.