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CANNOT warn players too em- On winning the second trick with phatically against indiscriminate the heart king declarer made
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of cards is, in itself, a form of lan- down the diamond ace, hoping to guoge. Obviously, it is one partner's get some information from the fall duty to "speak the truth" the of cards that would point out the other. Most bridge lies (false cards) correct manner are more misleading to partner than West, of to opponents.
nner of drawing trumps. course, followed to the ace with the deace. Had East auto- matically pinyed his lowest trump,
But, while false-carding should deck
declarer's natural action would nine toward
be confined to those rare situations have been to lend the
in which it is not dangerous to "le" the queen. Had he done so, of to partner, it is a fact that a judi- course, the situation would have clous false-card can be very balling been revealed and the finesses to the enemy. Consider the declar- nal
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er's dilemma in the following hand: East, however, made matters very tough for the declarer by following to the first diamond lead, not with the three, but with the eight spot! This fulse-card was declarer's un- doing. Of course, he realised that East might be fooling." But he could not know and, therefore, could not be criticised for laying down the diamend king us prepara- tón for a finesse against West.
The point was that East had nothing to lose by his false-card and a great deal to gain.
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fence? Opening lead, heart queen. guess which defender was long.
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As told to Captain
FRANK SHAW
I
SUPPOSE I'm an average pilot, so
my feelings in action may stand for the feelings of all my battling comrades.
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In the first place, not much fear
enters into a man'a thoughts when he's hurling himself at four hundred miles an hour into what the scribes call The Jaws of Hell,
Your feelings are chained tight. You are one with your killer-machine.
Every extraneous thought is clean wiped from your brain.
Your goal is a hundred miles: twenty minutes, or, with a following wind, even less than that; and for twenty minutes-a breath or a life- time in an airman's existence -you have opportunity to test your armour; to try a few quick tricks, perhaps, to make sure the ship is as always- as ready to your hand, eye and heart, as a blood horse about to start for the Derby.
have seen to detalls: your guns are serviced and rendy; a touch on the answering the button and
of that. you spatter assures Everything is smooth as silk under- your hands,
Your ground-crew
DAY
You are subconsclously aware of a sense of unlimited power. You feel on a level with the gods-even
them, for you Euperior to modern and efficient; not overlaid with the dust and grime of futile oges.
You are a god) But you don't put that into words; the awareness simply flows through you with m odd, electric tingling that again
Itself communientes
to your Increased machine, giving it an roar of power, a thickened vibrn- tion, an eagerness that is like the straining of hounds on a leash.
But you don't think-unifl after- wards the swift fmpressions regis- tered on your brain are developed, like a sensitised plate.
AIR-LIFE to-day is all'anti-
elpation and almost grudg- ing retrospect. There is no pre- nent; because the present flows pust, you at three hundred miles an hour, to become a blurred post Lefore you appreciate its existence.
If you have listened to a broadcast describing enemy. mvagery, and strvelly, you pro-li bably start your patrol with a fury of hatred blazing Inside you; an incoherent determination to square the deal with the marderous Iun.
You've heard of mutilated nurses. shattered under the symbol of the onee-sacred Red Cross; of old women hutchered as they fled for the ditches of their wrecked vil- Inges. You've seen, with bleary, almost unregistering oyes, the severed limbs--yes, and hands-of childron, fored glasilly among their torn fays, MA
You swear that
God's avenging grace, you will treat any enumy you encounter in precisely that way; mangling him, showing
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pour in a stream of death.
It's him or you....
no pity, no int of mercy. But that is on the ground; these raging emotions are not your companions in the parted air.
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All you are conscious of is strained desire to see what the sky would spout upon you. No high- falutin' heroismat It fa a "job," to be done as effelently and thorough- ly as may be.
It is your work, for which you draw pay, for which painstaking specialists trained
you through what seemed then to be tedious months.
You
supplies just now might seriously affect the situation below.
You sec T Oghter slecking along on
some devilment and you give the gun, calling to your bus for every inch of extra speed.
If you see yourself overhauling the quarry you are vaguely glad; if you drop speed you are vaguely disappointed; but not angrily so. It's just the luck.
Out of all my fights-and there have been plenty-I cannot re- member either fear or clation. Not at the moment, that is.
I have felt my mouth dry like a Imekin when the hazard's over: I have felt my heart thrusting ke a hammer in my throat; but that was when in security.
OU fretted then at compara-. tive innetion; now you bless the thoughtful care that in- sisted on
hard cieleney before entrusting you with a fighting job.
One impression does stand out And through the blur of uncon- curiously and clearly, though. It acious - thought;-you--nee-kuddenly-was-the-other-day, when sawa. that here is what you came out to find-death or victory.
Hatred has fled; possibly-I've limp felt it-there is even [1 sympathy with what you intend shall be your victims--your bag. for the fact that you are wishful to slaughter fellow humans doesn't register in human terms. For all emotion to the contrary, these flickering glints pround you might be partridges.
The fight itself is a series of flushes: none definitely registered at the inument, all taking orderly. shape as your trained brain clears to accept individua} facts.
A man is on your tail-and you spin around to give him the works. You manoeuvre without conscious volition, until you see him within range, your nose bearing fairly; you touch the button and give him the burst..
steam of You follow the death, pouring in another. It is your enemy or you.
A fitting impression-"She'll be Borry if then you choke with a red heat as you see you've killed him: fighter.
He's down; diving like all hell, flaming, smoking-there's a hint of a deathly stink that is as fleeting os a thought.
No time for thought-below is a clutch of bombers, intent on death. You dive eight thousand feet in a brènthless plummet-sweep. You don't know you're doing. It, except for the drumming of air-pressures In your ears. You,use oxygen os a something within you, superior to your will, dietates.
You range for attack, and stil you're not murderous, only a craftsman.
You cut a bomber clean in two, watch him down; you get on to another, 'destroy him.
The clutch breaks" formation, with every indication of pante.
YOU chase--you settle on a
big fellow's tall; but it' in the instinct of that careful training that directs your synchronised movements, not your sentient self. Your brains org iced, but they work more slowly than your actions.
German bomber deliberately wreck a hospital ship,
The Red Cross WON plainly evident to me, who was higher than the Heinkel. He could not help having seen it; but his downward dive had all the determined pur- pose of a man attacking a definite- ly hostile target,
He killed that sacred ship. He machine-gunned nurses and wounded men-some of them Ger- mans as they made for the boats.
He swooped and machinegunned people--women, too, in the oily waler. He was worse than any mad dog-his dastardly assassina- ilons were wholesnic,
I fell hate-like a fire. I felt I'd kill him if it meant flying fairly into him and bringing him down In a blind grapple.
I sat on him, cut him in two. Ho dived in a spiral; and as he - dived I gave him another burst
to make sure,
Then the Heinkel hit the sea and disapeured, in a scum of off and debris horrible broth of death and torment.
A
RUBBER boat popped up.. and clinging to it were two men: the men who, had made that holocaust.
A second before I'd been swear- ing blue murder—that if I got a shot I'd hit them in the atomach so they'd die slowly and agonisedly. The Kaleldoscope fultered.
"Foor, devils! They're doing as they're told." But as I spared them I saw retribution overlake the Jerries.
Erect in their rubber bont they floated amongst swimmers, hands up-Kamerading hard. And two swimming sailors-I saw this in a lightning flash of conscious thought grabbed the boat, capsized 12, held the airmen dayn unul their writhings ceased.
But even then I was aware nel-. ther of pity nor, satisfaction. This air-game is bigger than its player.
A perfectly processed machine would feel that way if it could think. It has a function to (per- form: clean, precise, inevitable. That is the emotion underrunning You cannot distinguish detalls all a fighting airman's thoughts. Uæ blur returns, you kill, "YOU" There is no such thing as donth wriggle clear by side-slipping or the only conscious feeling you. eimid-seeking, of a furlour attack have on that subject la that you by enemy fightors; and you steady might not be ashamed to face good yourself to conserve your ammuni-comrades in the next unknown tion, because to race back for fresh
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