The Springdale news., 1919-01-03


 ships are "Sops" Sopwith being tn, proper name. We left at 1:2S ant soon located my panel saying Ire quest for adjustment" answered back by wireless understood. I. battery ready You understand b1 panels l mean a g foot square of white cloth laid on the ground, witt three other strips These are uset to signal aeroplanes from the ground Soon after my question l saw the signal battery ready, turned the plane towards the target ana when near siignalled fire. Ny shots were not far off, about 150 feet Of 30 meters to the left and 600 feet over. l sent down the sensings and after sobo or two I believe four had my shots where they suited the bat tery commander He then sent me No further need of you" And replied understood. Am going to land"
 That's all there is to regulating ar tillery. You do plain straight fly ing on account of the wireless. I like artillery work fine. Savey, the plain. straight flying.
 As soon as I landed I found that was ready to go out with the in- fantry. l got my map, signal roc ketts, ,pisti1s, and message eontainer, and with 128 went up again. I To- eated my infantry panel and they signalled to me that they understood who vas. When neared the prob able position of the infantry fired my one star rocket, which meant am the plane of the first division. . Then l fired a star rocket, which said to the "doughboyss Where are you?' Then out come little panels making an indistinet line Showing me where they were. This l drew on my map and then l saw a regimentaI panel asking the artillery to length ea range" l also noted it's position on the map. Then fired star rock ct, saying that T understood" The panels then disappeared.
 I then sent down by wireless the location of the regiment and what 1t requested. Then l sent down the lo= cation of the sdoughboys. After ten minutes l again asked for the line and it had moved forward of course we're not trained for the second line to be in the rear of the first. 1 located them again. also the regi- mental command past. 1 sent these down by wireless again to the diyis- ion headquarters Then sem by wireless l was going to lands 1 then prepared my message and We swooped down over the Division headquarters where dropped my message. Then we flew back to the landing field. When I got out l found it after four o'clock, and my days work done. Had supper at 5:30 and was rather tired So l didn't go to town-also I'm broke. Anoth- CT good reason for not going. l stayed around the barracks, read the S. l.. P. the American Argosy. Ad- venture, and looked (not read) at the French magazines. Now DSd that one day in the air game. Does it sound interesting
 Today-I slept until this morning had breakfast, and then saw foot ball game-had dinner, saw another foot ball game-good ones too, play cd by teams from different squad rons and there were players from Harvard, Princeton, Wisconsin, Hi nois, Kansas, one man from Texas A and M. one from Vanderbilt, and they knew how.
 No flying today-Sunday-rathe1 unusual, but the weather has been bad cloudy, and misty all day. One or two of the fellows went up for short "stunting" trips.
 Pm not scheduled for work in the morning, but if it clears up l SUD- pose I'll go up and take a few pictures tomorrow afternoon. That's great stuff, but more about 1t later-this right arm of mine has the rheumatism now from singing this pencil. It's raining here tonight, mixing rain ane sleet. very disagreeable. Haven't had word from Fay, so guess he's not at Brest. Maybe he's lucky and has been started home, or maybe he never got over=but l hope he dit for it's a great trip.
 don't know what they are goine to do with us. Rumors fly thick ant fast over here One day we're go ing home very soon and be mustered out; then we're going home and fly the postal routes-then we're to gS forward and relieve the fellows there I don't know, I'm just taking things as they come, and only worry abou the long spell between pay days.
 Anyway, Pm not turning down an! ehane es to come home. look fel orders to move somewhere" most any time.
 We'll, Dad, this letter will do fo your Christmas letter, present, etc for the whole family. I'm bringing few trinkets when I come-some me mentos with little data on them and do not care to trust them | the mail-good as it may be.
 Here's hoping and wishing agains ] hn,,a that we might all spend Christ