By BUD FISHER
I WAS MINDING MY
OWN BUSINESS WHEN DE STEPS THIS LONG-NOSED
SLAPIKANTEATER AND
SMACKS ME. IN THE MUSH!
WHY, IT'S
MUTT! HE THOUGHT YOU WERE
ME!
ام
DS.C.
HIS WIFE'S PHOTOGRAPH
A roar, followed by a shaking explosion, caught the Medical Of-
ficer as he was walking to the Sick Quarters of a Coastal Command behind a wall. An acraft had
Station. Instinctively he durked
crashed and blown up. mot 11 from lum1 Debris from the shat tered machine
Jatt.
Up.
As the Medical Officer stood down in front of hun. It was the picture of the young wife one of
stall photograph floated
the pilots on the Station.
cal Officer. tell his wife."
THE AIR FORCE
TYPE
There has always been!
tion to the air.
Their job is their
hobby and there is no sounder guarantee of a job well done.
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open their
clothes
Muffled in their flying and helmets they all look alike as they clamber sumy down from aircraft back from a raid. But as belmet and leather coats come off.
square-built face, a good others hardly ever
mouths; some carry themselves complexion and "eyes over with self assurance, while others the horizon" invariably show a surprising mildness. tell around
suggest a sailor. The Army type calls to mind a stiff back, and a moustache, "Poor kid“, muttered the Medi-But so far there is no such
the differences are revealed. Here an I wonder who will thing as Air Force
is a young fellow with a baldish type. Perhaps it is that head and a modest manner-not the conventional appearance of a two generations of flying hero. Here is another with wide, men are insufficient for dreamy eyes and delicate hands. Here is one who fits more into the the evolution of a type; picture--a broad grin, a healthy. certainly to describe any-glowing face and a shock of wild » hair. But he again, is offset by a man with a studious face--look- one as "a typical airman” is not helpful-it conjures ing as though he had spent the up no particular image.
A grimy gure came running | round the building. from the dir- ection of the burning wreckage It was the "poor kid": minus tunic, a bit shaken, but none the He had managed to jump flying solo in shirt sleeves, with his tunic hanging up behind him when, to avoid colli-
worse.
clear as he crashed.
He
was
sion with another aircraft, he had
to put his machine down on the Sergeant's tennis court. His wife's a small photograph had been in pocket Bible, butioned into the The breast pocket of his tunic. explosion blew the Bible out of the pocket. and the photograph out of the Bible, which was found, slightly charred, on the roof of a neighbouring building. There was not a trace of the tunic or even of its buttons.
Films about flying have fami- larised us with a series of keen resolute men Diving "on their ner- ves", as the saying goes, and on the whole rather less human than But they are not their machines.
visit to any R.A.F. typical-as a iness will show.
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last four hours on an office stool instead of in an air gunner's cock- pit.
"What do you make of my ob- server?" said a pilot the other day. "He wouldn't hurt a kitten, yet he's the fellow who drops the bombs queer isn't it."
One looks in vain for the strain - Youth is the main thing thated bloodshot eyes, the ragged ner- the crude devil-may-care R.A.F. crews have
common; ves.
There that, and their unswerving devo-manner of fictional flyers.
is none of that about the R.A.F. afrinen. Nor are they controlling violent emotions or making a pose of nonchalance. They are merely behaving ordinarily about what to them although the rest of the world may wonder-has become an ordinary job.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Roman god-
dess of the hearth
6 Group of
three
11 King of Norway
12 Motive
14 Kept bow
onto the sea
15 Chinese coin
17 Symbol for
.sodium
18 Pronoun
19 Calyx leaf
20 Salfor
21 Symbol for tellurium
.22 Year's
record
23 To, ábomi-,
nate
24 One of the
English, isles.
fruits
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28 Capital of -
Latvia
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warrior
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34 Repotition 38 Criminal: 36 Sun god. 37 To be
obliged.
38 Swift
39 Ignited
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cal force
41 Odour
42 Comfort
43 Wanness
45 Tray
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with weights
in handa
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prophet
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VERTICAL
1 Lake in
Sweden
2 Hearing
organs
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3 Firmament
4 Toward
* Insect's
feelor
6 Attempt
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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DDD PUDDE
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7 Lively dance
8 Man's name
✪ Because
10 To give
11 West Indian
island
13 The nostrils 16 Small
French biplane
19 Trap 20 Mongolian 22 To place in
rows
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25 To excite · 26 Piece of turf 20 Ty Bet free 20 Company? 20 Canopied
seat atop an elephant „31 To' appear
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argoddess of
flowers
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Yale, A 44 Note of "scalo Ida Mulberry
Occasionally there is excitement over some particular success, and there is enthusiasm all the time. On the other hand there was no the pilot who affectation about recently described his journey to Berlin as "just a 'bus ride."
It is in these characteristics per- haps rather than in any physical similarity that we shall discover the Air Force type-this singular capacity for remaining cool, com- bined with a genius for under- statement, born of the only real fear the R.A.F. have, the fear of "shooting a line."
GERMAN BOMBS IN ENGLISH FLOWER POTS
Outside the mess of an R.A.F. Fighter Command Station in the south. of England are two bombs. They were taken from a Dornier 17 Bomber which was shot down some time ago by a fighter from the station. They were rendered harmless by the armament officer and presented to the mess.
And there they stand, each in a wooden flower pot at each side of the entrance. A swastika is paint- ed on each flower pot.
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