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...Backward. By August 1918 a mixed collection of 200 planes was able to launch a mass bombing attack on a German advanced airfield. Unorthodox were the tactics of two pilots who landed on the field, fired machine guns into the officers' mess, took off again safely. Unwritten laws, such as wining & dining captured pilots and never shooting up an enemy plane that had been forced to land, were usually observed by both sides. Flowers floated down after an enemy pilot had been killed. Messages were sometimes dropped by German pilots, requesting clothes for some fallen Britisher who had crashed...
...last issue--any further demonstration of sentiment would be womanish and unsuitable in an officer and a gentleman (over though only by act of Congress!!) Shortly after this goes to press, all sixty-four of us will be on route to our duty stations and looking ahead, rather than backward. Our fellow-graduates across the river will be in similar situations. But the Supply Corps continues, and the Communication School plug on, and the QMC works modestly in mufti, so we'll write a post-valedictory piece since our valedictory appeared in the last issue for these who toil...
Kharkov Is a Hinge. The Germans did not encircle and destroy the Red Armies which had been moving toward the Dnieper. On the Russian side, what had been vanguard became rearguard and fought as fiercely going backward as it had going forward. What were to have been the arms of a German pincer west of the Donets embraced emptiness, converged, and drove frontally on Kharkov...
...shout 'Down the hatch!' They raise their glasses and say 'Cheers' in modulated tones. . ... Everybody is a 'type' of some sort: 'good type,' 'bad type' or 'good-bad type' . . . and there are innumerable other classifications: melancholy type, backward type, insistent type. ... A guy becomes a chap, and a fair number of Americans are developing the afternoon-tea habit." Observed Correspondent O'Reilly: "Americans must prepare themselves for a certain postwar shock they are going to get when the troops come home...
Algiers to Teheran. Brightest results are on the press side. The percentage of OWI news in Turkish newspapers has skyrocketed; the Anatolian News Agency in Istanbul has more than doubled its news take. Africa was very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden...