Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches

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Ralph Pulitzer. Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches

Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches

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OVER THE FRONT IN AN AEROPLANE

I. A FLIGHT TO THE FIRING LINE

II. HOW THE FRONT IS VISITED

III. IN THE FRENCH TRENCHES

IV. A TYPICAL DAY'S TOUR

V. A GRENADE-THROWING SCHOOL

VI. WITH THE BELGIAN BATTERIES

VII. IN THE FLEMISH TRENCHES

VIII. LESSONS

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Ralph Pulitzer

Published by Good Press, 2021

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We all stood perfectly powerless and watched the machine spiral down. As he made his glide, men stood in the field waving spare wheels at him to insure his understanding. But no. Instead of landing tilted to the left on his sound wheel and tail, he made his landing leaning over a little to the right where the wheel was missing. As it touched the earth the great machine buried its nose in the ground, its tail rose and rose till it stood perpendicular, and then fell forward in a somersault, so that the plane was lying on its back.

"He's finished. Get the ambulance," ordered the Captain.

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