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April 15, 1941.

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·R.A.F. phrases have already passed into the language... c.g., Ho for a Heinkel; You for a Junkers; Me for a Messerschmitt.

There are others, too. they are used.

And strange stories in which

By Guy Ramsey

ALF-A-DOZEN lads, all

Hiir 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.

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 taller In- figured to advantage. stantly the five others broke into a chant:

"There was 1... Thirty thousand

fect up...

Upside down. Hanging on my

straps. . What did I do?"

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

Hearing them talk, quite apart from technicalities of aircraft, quite. apart even from the rigmarole of Initials which the Junior Service uses to fantastic lengths, one came upon totally strange words.

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

gen..

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

was, and ascend again. As it is a rule that a pilot, dropping at an airfield, must report, and that re- port 'goes back to his station, he would drop swiftly, bawl 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 an airfield, bawled out: "Where om I?" received the answer, "Quicke- on-the-Uplake" (blame the Cen- sorship for this place-name), yelled "thanks,” and was away.

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

He received the bitter, answer Still Quicke-on-the-Uptake!"

ANOTHER cadet had a fright one

He had been Bying single-seater Lighters, 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 acroplane 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. She could not shake off this unwanted and unexpected neighbour.

It was not until several hair- raising moments later that he realised it was his own riding lightto far out on the huge machine that he, accustomed to the tiny 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 Genius Is gen. A man who has

machine. He was petrified with the very latest rumour is a gen for picking up news, so the news he

nerves. As he was cruising about, gen is picks up

a plane hurtled past him in the is gen. Duff

his darkness,

brushing unreliable rumour; pukka gen-

nearly considerably rarer is well-found-wing-lip. It was only when it had ed rumour.

passed he recognised it Mc.110.

TRANGE stories these trainees

have to tell.

The mun 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 lin- 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?”

“Nay. scholard."

"Hm. Well, am I near Brad- ford?"

Can't read. I'm noa

:"Này."

"Leeds?"

"Oh, nay."!

"Sheffield?"

"Oh, nay."

"Hull?"

"Oh, nay."

"In desperation. "How far from Huit?"

"Must be all of eight mile!"

As Timothy Shy would say, "Collapse of stout party, accus~ tomed to thinking of hundreds of miles as a "Gip."

THEN there was the story of the cadet who had no gift for mape" reading. "Flow like an angel but couldn't find his way to London If you showed him the Thames to

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That is a story he does not tell often. Even diouch, it was blind luck he was not shot down, he does not want to hear that chorus of hearty derision chanted at him.

POCKET CARTOON ́

"Careful of the plaster,

now!"

Why People Swear

Speaking at Gloucester As- sizes 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.

Losses Shipping Only Three Percent

·

What Britain needs in 1941 is not urmies from overseas-It is Jorge

weapons, ships and airplanes..

Sir Arthur Saller, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Ship- ping, made this statement in an in- terview with VS, newspaper corres- pondents.

Despite the fact that since the Germans seized the French ports our shipping losses average 00,000 Lons a week, we still have more than 07 per cent, of the total seagoing ton- nage under the British flag in 1939,.

said. The

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 (1660). In the second. Great Fire. on December 29 last. It escaped with a slight top- storey singcing.... Bad luck to have como safely through bombing and then succumb to an ordinary firo (or, in a way, good luck, since insurance payment is probably fuller & prompter than Government compensation).AR

TT may be some months before,

"the Cheore" ran reopen. The damage is mostly on the ground door. Most of the "relics," which Americans tued to handle #o re- verently, are safe: the chair in which, no doubt; Dr Johnson was assured that Bhakespeare had ant the visitors'-books, a, ale po

man's Holiday" ("Tum-tum- titum-titumty.. TUM TUM"). Upstairs, salvage men found one of the two cats, dead.

to crowd "the Cheese," Journa- Ists were among the local curiosi- ties that made up its atmosphere. Journalists, feeling that it was their pub, were slightly relieved when winter came and they had elbow room to drink old ale (10d a half- pint, the strongest here-abouts) and eat a cut off an excellent joint (personally, I didn't care so much for

Famous Ye much-boosted Pudding).

To the summer tourists who used

High-backed box paws about, the tables, churchwarden-pipes, - saw- dust-strewn floors, electric lighting that looked like gas all were evidence of the careful archaism the "olde" character of with which

In the place had been emphasised recent years. So. was the notice

above the doorstep (even the fur-

row wom in it protected by Iron bars): "Customers are requested to mind the step, which is part of

uko for centuries by

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