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WELL HERE WE ARE IN OKLAHOMA CITY-THE FOLKS ARE ALL FIXIN', UP.SO ILL JUST DOLL UP ME – SELF-THERE'S LOTS TO SEE IN

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THIS TOWN?

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1940.

LIFE WITH THE

AIR

FORCE

their

" 'Dawn Patrol"? That picture? Why, ing allowed to "live out with that's a kids' parlour game compared wives; sometimes several miles away. with what goes on here. Do you know "This is a completely unreal war, what replacements are? Well, it's not as fought from 'England," he said. a pretty word, but it has to be used "These married men come back from a lot here."

a dog-fight to their radio, warm fires, dogs, armchairs, and wives. Then they will get a message at midnight to say that they have to get up at 5.30 a.m. for a flight. They don't know whether it is the real stuff or a practice flight. "Then think of the wives. They live so close that they can hear the aircraft coming over. You can imagine them saying, 'Is George safe?' Or 'I wonder if Bill is all right?'

It was the Medical Officer speaking at this station. He and I were sitting at the end of a long table with 20.or 30 empty chairs.

re the

"We are lunching late," he marked, pointing at the rest of table. But how would we be feeling if we were actual pilots ourselves and we were lunching at the normal time?"

"Lousy, I suppose."

"Yes, very probably.

But there is] a kind of Ten Little Nigger Boys feel- ing also."

"Being a professional survivor, you mean?"

"Yes, something like that. when we have replacements."

That's

At the present moment the film at the local picture-house is "Five Came Back." Its very title ensures that prac- tically every officer has gone to see It.

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It was just as I arrived at this air station that I had my first glimpse of real Active Service operations.

Until then I had talked to officers and men waiting "on readiness" to go up. But it so happened that the order hadn't come when I was there. This time three big bombers glid- ed in at the far end of the flying field after a seven hours' sweep in the North Sea, during which they were protecting convoys, looking for submarines.

Fortunately they had met no op- position and so the Medical Officer, the fire tender, and the ambulance- not to mention all the surgery kit laid out in the little operating theatre-

were unnecessary.

I met them (the officers) five minutes later on their way to report to the In- telligence Officer.

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"This is bound to get on their nerves. It would be so much better to send

-By- CHARLES GRAVES

the wives away and let the officers have ten days instead of six days' leave every six weeks.

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"It would mean they could really get right away and have a real party when they saw their wives. As it is," they hang around and don't get a break at all.

tion,

"Besides, if they lived on the sta- away from their wives, they would be in the war atmosphere the whole time and automatically be on their toes."

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It is only fair to say that later an- other extremely experienced officer took the opposite view.

But the latter's flight is engaged on a different type of job, more continu- ous and less dangerous. In his opinion, married life away from the station prevents the officers, N.C.O.'s and men from remaining too keyed-up the

"I suppose you specialise mostly in burns?" I asked the Medical Officer. "Yes," was the reply. "We know whole time. about an hour ahead when the aircraft are due back. Apart from that we warm up the engines of the crash kit ambulance for five minutes every hour, night and day.

Well, probably both are right ac- cording to the respective duties of their personnel.

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It was yet another officer who spoke "The ambulance also has special to me about the physical discomfort hoists for clipping on to the harness of a sudden dive from a great height. of the injured men and yanking them out. If they are in pain we give them I had said that when I flew across the

a shot of morphia right away.

"In the case of burns we give them a local application of tannic acid, then inject salines intravenously. You know, the Winnit-Orr treatment."

of

My next question was about pos- sible lack of nerve (temporary, course) after a really bad time.

"Nervous breakdown, you mean? Well, I find that the young ones have it least," said the M.O. "When they do go down with it they usually complain of stomach trouble, which is only na- tural Or else they say that they are getting air-sick, which they didn't get

before.

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and very experi- It was another, enced, officer who raised the issue of, in his opinion, the undesirability of married officers, N.C.O.s and men be-

WELL FIRST, MOTHER, I'LL GO TO THE HAIR-DRESSER- YOU MEET ME AT THAT 'HAT: STORE THE HOTEL MANAGER TOLD US ABOUT-

United States last year my ears had hurt like hell when coming down sud- denly from a mere 9,000 ft.

"You have no idea," he said mildly. "You feel that your forehead is burst- ing, that somebody is jabbing you just above the eyes with a penknife, and as for your ears..

"Some fellows chew gum. Some hold their nose and blow. A few, hold their jaws apart with one hand-anything to relieve pain."

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To revert to air gunners. They are full of slang. They call Wellingtons by the nickname of "wimpey." "Jankers" is the guard room.

Wireless

called operators are

are "wads." "Scrub" "wops." Cakes means washout. "Gen." pronounced (Continued on Page 11)

By George McManus

THEN WE'LL GO TO THAT ANTIQUE SHOP BUT WE MUST GET BACK FOR TEA AND THEN TO THAT AUCTION AND-

I'LL BE TODDLING ALONG-THERE'S A MOVIE ACROSS THE STREET

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