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want the bullets to go. Suppose you 

 see a company down there which you 

 think should be annoyed — you just 

 point your machine that way and let 

 them have it until you decide they 

 have enough, or until you are forced 

 to move on. The aeroplanes also do 

 a good deal of damage to the enemy 

 by dropping bombs, and they are 

 of course of great assistance to the 

 infantry by showing them where the 

 enemy is, and routing out groups of 

 Germans who may be hiding in a 

 shell hole or a small trench, some- 

 times holding up our advance by 

 means of their machine gun fire. 

 The aeroplanes get after these chaps 

 at once, and if they cannot manage 

 to settle them alone they signal down 

 to the advancing infantry and they 

 do the job. 



Getting Messages Back 

 In advance movements the in- 

 fantry in some parts of course go 

 faster than others, and it is absolutely 

 necessary for the safety oi tlie troops 

 that the higher command, miles fur- 

 ther back, should know exactly at 

 what point each unit is, and which 

 sections need to be reinforced. There 



are special machines for this work, 

 and they are sometimes called "liaison 

 machines" because they act as mes- 

 sengers. When they cannot get a 

 wireless through to headquarters, 

 sometimes they take a picture, or 

 make a drawing, which will contain 

 the necessary information, and then 

 fly back to headquarters and drop 

 the message and hurry back to get on 

 the job again. In this way, by keep- 

 ing the higher command absolutely 

 posted on the situation of every unit 

 in the advance, our guns are kept 

 from shelling out people. I think 

 w^hat I have told you just about 

 covers the extent of our co-operation 

 with the infantrv. 



MR ATKINSON: I have a ques- 

 tion I would like to ask. Supposing 

 you have a lake with a row of trees? 

 around it, along the shores close to 

 the water — trees say, 40 feet high — 

 how great w^ould the area of the lake 

 have to be in order to make a safe 

 landing ground for an aeroplane, the 

 minimum area I mean? 



Alighting in Water 



MAJOR KENNEDY: I think in 

 a lake like that if vou will take an 



LAKE McARTHUR, TRAIL 24, BRITISH COLUMBIA 



