Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — SCOUTS U. S. SKY WAR TALK [ARTICLE]

SCOUTS U. S. SKY WAR TALK

Baron Richthofen Sees Big Loss of Machines in Transport—Training Long and Costly. Copenhagen. Nov. 16. —Capt. Baron von Richthofen. Germany’s leading aviator. expresses himself as unconcerned over the reported preparation to place 20,000 American aviators on the weste: n front. He believes it will be impossible to get together that many trained pilots as the training is long and costly, and involves heavy casualties. The newcomers, he says, particularly at first, “will be unable to judge the military conditions and at least 25 per cent of the Machines will be disabled during the long transport.”