Two Phases of War Transportation 



One of the new French 

 battle 'planes, equipped 

 with a three-inch rapid- 

 fire gun. Owing to the 

 substantial construction of 

 modem aeroplanes, it has 

 been found that a spray 

 of bullets from a machine- 

 gun or a shrapnel shell 

 does little damage, unless 

 one of the bullets strikes 

 a control wire or seriously 

 wounds the pilot. The 

 latest development is the 

 installation of guns which 

 throw explosive shells. 

 These shells, if correctly 

 aimed, will tear the frame- 

 work of an opposing aero- 

 plane to pieces 



Below is pictured an inci- 

 dent by no means un- 

 common in military serv- 

 ice. A French staff car 

 has become mired in the 

 bed of a flooded stream. 

 Repair cars are within 

 easy calling distance in 

 almost any district in the 

 war zone, and the me- 

 chanics are equipped to 

 handle any kind of an ac- 

 cident, from that shown; 

 to the removal of a car 

 which kas been hit by a 

 high-explosive shell 



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