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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 4
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not necessary for us to be told that they were veterans. Next, six aeroplanes in which were comrades of the men who had been honored passed before the generals, then turned across the field, took a run and a jump and climbed almost straight into the sky. There they proceeded to entertain the crowd and make us gasp with their side-slips and loops and tail spins and dives and other acrobatics more thrilling than I ever saw before. The "stunts" that used to dazzle the crowds in America are simple in comparison to the maneuvers that our fighting pilots perform here at the front as part of the day's work. I must
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not necessary for us to be told that they were veterans. Next, six aeroplanes in which were comrades of the men who had been honored passed before the generals, then turned across the field, took a run and a jump and climbed almost straight into the sky. There they proceeded to entertain the crowd and make us gasp with their side-slips and loops and tail spins and dives and other acrobatics more thrilling than I ever saw before. The "stunts" that used to dazzle the crowds in America are simple in comparison to the maneuvers that our fighting pilots perform here at the front as part of the day's work. I must
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