Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — How the Airmen Fight. [ARTICLE]

How the Airmen Fight.

The pitfalls and dangers which an aviator must avlod at the front are becoming more numerous every day. Anti-aircraft guns mounted on fast motor cars, chase around the country behind the lines and prevent the ene- , my airplanes and Zeppelins from remaining over our territory. This typeof battery was responsible for the Zeppelins brought down at Compelgne in> April, 1917, and Revigny, in Aprll--1916. In fact, this Invention was oneof the immediate causes of the Germans giving up their “strafing” with Zeppelins. The record for distance and height in hitting an airplane with thls> type of cannon is 15,000 feet in theair at 9,000 yards’ distance across country. A very large crew is required to man one of these cannon. Besides the cannon a telephonist gets the report of the position over whichthe German machine is flying. —Carrol) 1 Dana Winslow, in Scribner’s Magazine.