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April 15, 1941.

By Walt Disney

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R.A.F. phrases have already passed into the language-

e.g. He for a Heinkel: You for a Junkers: Mo for a Messerschmitt.

There are others, too. they are used,

And strange stories in which

By Guy Ramsey

Hi Air Force blue, sat about the table. They were all smoking. Only one of them was drinking-and he was indulging in one glass of sherry.

TALF-A-DOZEN ads, all

The group ranged in age from 28-a veteran, product of the Civil Air Guard, now just finishing his training-to 18. None of them had been commissioned. On only one breast that of the veteran- · gleamed the silver wings of Achievement. None of them. had been engaged in opera- tions against the enemy..

One of them-rashly-told an anecdote in which the teller figured to advantage. In- stantly the five others broké into a chant:

"There was feet up. Upside down

Thirty thousand

Hanging on my

straps.. What did I do?"

That chorus, rhythmic and de- risive, has become ritual. It is hurled at anyone giving utterance to anything that may remotely be construed as swank or boasting.

Hearing then talk, quite apart from technicalities of aircraft, quite apart even from the riginarole of Initials which the Junior Service uses to fantasie lengths, ope ̋come. upon totally strange words..

"Duft gen," for example, with the g in gen pronounced like a 1. This phrase has a brother, pukka

деп.

The Gens, Duff and Pukka, are rumours. The etymology of gen is uncertain; it is believed it is a con- traction (the R.A.F. Is mad on contractions) for genius..

Genius is gen. A man who has. the very latest rumour is a gen for picking up news, so the news he. picks up is gen. Duff gen is unreliable rumour; pukka gen considerably rarer is well-found- ed rumour.

CTRANGE stories these trainees

have to tell.

The man with the wings, for example, was on a training flight and lost himself: an easy thing to do if you are not yet highly trained. He made a forced landing and im- mediately tried to discover where. he was in order to report to his station.

In the gathering gloom he found a local yokel, and the following conversation ensued.

"Where is this?"

The answer was an unrecognis- able hamlet pronounced with a heavy Yorkshire accent.

"Ah. Thanks. Can you point it out on this map?" -

Can't read. I'm non

"Him. Well, am I hear Brad- ford?"

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"Leeds?"

"Oh, nay." "Sheffield?" "Oh, nay." "Hull7"

"Oh, nay."

"In desperation, "How for from

Hull?"

Must be all of eight milei"! . As Timothy Shy would any, Collapse of stout party, accus tomed to thinking of hundreds of miles as a “Nip.

THEN

was, and ascend again. As it is a rule that a pilot, dropping at un airfield, must report, and that re- port goes back to his station, 'he would drop swiftly, bawi his question, shout his thanks, and try to get away before the officer to whom he should report could be summoned."

That worked quite well, but on one occasion he came down at on alrfeld, bawled out; "Where am 17" received the answer, "Quicke- on-the-Uptake" (blame the Cen- sorship for

this

place-name), yelled "thanks,“`and was away.

Ten minutes later he descended at what he thought was the next aerodrome on his route. Again he came down, screaming almost be- fore his machine had taxied to a halt: "Where am I?"

He received the bitter answer "Still Quicke-on-the-Uptakej”....

NOTHER, cadet hhd n fright one A night He had been flying single-seater fighters, and for the first time took up a bomber at night. He was "pushing his crate"" along quite happily when, to his horror, he saw the riding light of another aeroplane just over to his right.

He flung the machine to the left, convinced he was going to collide. A shiver ran up his back: the other man had turned the same way...

Again he changed course, zoom- ing. Still he could not shake off tils unwanted and unexpected neighbour.

It was not until several hair- raising moments later that, he realised It was his own riding light so far out on the huge machine that he; accustomed to the tfry fighters, was convinced it was another plane,

Finally, there was the story of the young trainee up on his first night solo flight. in an unarmed machine. He was petrified with nerves.

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POCKET CARTOON

"Careful of the plaster,

now!':

Why People Swear

Speaking at Gloucester As.. Rizes recently, Mr Justice Hawke'said he thought people often used bad language be cause they had a paucity of vocabulary and, wished to gain time to form their thoughts.

He was giving judgment in a libel action in which a man alleged that two other men- had published a leaflet falsely accusing him of using bad language.

Mr Justice Hawke said the leaflet was justified and that the language said to have been used by the man making the claim for damages was highly objectionable.

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Shipping Losses Only Three Percent

What Britain needs in 1941 is not large armies from overseas-It is wergons, ships and airplanes.

Sir Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Ship ping, made this statement in an in- Lerview with US. newspaper corres- pondents.

Despite the fact that since the Germans seized the French ports our shipping losses average $0,000 tons

often. Even though it was blinda week, we still have more than 87

luck he was not shot down, he does not want, to hear that chorus of hearty derision chanted at him.

per cent, of the total seagoing ton- nage under the British fing in 1939, he said.

Toasted Cheese

by

WILLIAM HICKEY

NARLY one recent morning

Ethe Cheshire Cheese, off

Fleet St, was burned out.

It was burned out in the first Great Fire of London, (1666). In the second Great Fire. on December 29 Inst. It escaped with a slight top storey singelng Bad luck to have come safely through bombing and than succumb to an ordinary fire (or, in a way, good luck, since insurance payment is probably fullor & prompter than Government compensation);

man's

'Holiday"

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High-backed.box pews about the fabies, churchwarden pipes, sow dust-strewn doors, electric lighting that looked like gas-all were evidence of the careful archaism with which the folde" character of the place had been emphasised in recent years. So was the notite above the doorstep (even the fur

worn in it protected by iron

may be some months before "the Chuck an reopen. The dainago is mostly on the ground floor: Most of the "relics," which Americans used to handle to re verantly, are safe: the "chale in which, no doubt, Dr. Johnson was assured that Shakespeare had sat, the visitors' books, bangsang WAT London, if

there was the story of the codet who had no gift for map- reading." "Flew like an angel but couldn't and his way to

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