Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 December 1914 — Page 9
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created a new member of the staff, the aerial observer, whose work is to survey from on high the positiin? of the enemy and reveal his organization, the precise placing of his batteries and the movements of his troops. With this he combines a minor offensive mission
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in throwing bombs whenever possible and in driving off the enemy's observers. But his chief work is reconnoissance, and unless he has positive ora^rs otherwise, fighting and bomb throwing must be subordinated to observation.
The direction of the work is under a member of the general staff, who has the title of chief of the aerial reconnoisance service. He receives every evening a list of the aviators who are at his disposal and the program of the reconnoissances desired for the next day. The aerial observer is usually a subordinate member of trie general staff, but specially trained company officers are sometimes used and also subalterns and soldiers who have shown special aptitude for the work.
The observer who has been chosen for a particular piece of work, having received his orders in the evening, goes at dawn the next day to. the aviation park, where the pilot awaits him. There, if the weather is at all favorable, the aeroplane is brought out of the hangar and while the mechanicians oil up the machine and get it reafly for the start, the observer explains to his pilot the route they must take and the information they seek, and maps are brought out and consulted. If the day is cloudy and windy they must wait for better weather, but if conditljons^arg.Jn any w&y suitable for By-
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ing they mount into their places and are off for the day's work. Two Thousand Yards Above Enemy.
In the French aeroplanes the pilot and the observer sit tandem, sometimes one in front and sometimes the other, according to the make of the machine. Both are tigtttly strapped in their places.
Experience has shown that reconnoissance work is best done at a height of two thousand yards. To fly at an altitude of less than 1,800 yaraa it worse than foolish, for then one is! within easy reach of the anti-aircrart I guns of the Germans. The best height to combine safety with fairly accurate observation is two thousand yards, Dut even then one is not always safe, for the best German anti-aircraft guns carry three thousand yards, though the! average range is from 1,500 to 2,000 yards.
At the altitude at which the military observer must fly all objects on the earth appear very small indeed. The earth itself seems flat.
The aviator studies it with the utmost care, turning and re-turning in great circles, trying to sound the secrets it conceals. It is an important strategic point for it is the junction: of several railway line3, and the observer has been ordered to try to destroy the supplies and munitions wh'oh
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have been collected there and to destroy it also as a center of communication for the enemy.
Hanging before the observer are three bombs in their leather cases. He takes one of them in his lerr hand, ready to drop, and selects the little station on the edge of the village as his target. There is special activity there. Perhaps it is an embarkation of ti'oops or an ammunition or food train is being prepared.
The observer gives notice to the pilot a.nd the aeroplane turns and circles over the station. The observer leans l'ar over the side, waiting for the one favorable instant that must be seized. With little gestures of his right hand he guides the pilot, while in his left he holds the bomb far out. The moment comes. For one single instant the machine hovers directly over the station, his lingers open and the bomb id InrnHiPd. Once.'twice, it turns in the air, then drops point downward and is lost to sight in the rapidity of its flight. But twenty seconds later a ,cloud of white smoke spreads above the station. The bomb has reached its target.
Of the effect produced the observer can tell very little. Without doubt, if an ammunition train has been struck an7 'pit caisson, the effect can b« a railroad station or
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a food convoy it is almost impossible to tell what damage has been done. And how many vain efforts must be made to secure one small result! Also, the Germans are becoming adepts at concealing themselves, so that now hardly anything less than a village will serve for a target.
A new adventure comes now in another aeroplane that appears on the horizon. The pilot, who watcheg the heavens while the observer is absorbed in the study of the earth, calls attention to the newcomer. It is very difficult to distinguish the nationality of an aeroplane passing in profile in full flight upon the same plane.
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