1941-01-09 — Page 5

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.

OUR 10-Minute CroSS-WORD

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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

26 Tropical

27. Italian coln

28 Capital of -

Latvia

29.Ancient

warrior

31 Divers

34 Repotition 38 Criminal: 36 Sun god. 37 To be

obliged.

38 Swift

39 Ignited

40 Hypotheti-

cal force

41 Odour

42 Comfort

43 Wanness

45 Tray

47 Long Jump

+

with weights

in handa

43 Hebrew

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

29 Murderer of Siegfried

25 To excite · 26 Piece of turf 20 Ty Bet free 20 Company? 20 Canopied

seat atop an elephant „31 To' appear

32 Ascends 33 As a gubre Languent time

- Homan K

argoddess of

flowers

38 Preposition 39 Molten rock 41′′Every one }-

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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