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TRAINING FOR OBSERVATION WORK AT THE FRONT 



The aviation students, seated above the platform with their maps in hand, are being 

 drilled in the art of reporting artillery fire at the front. Below is a landscape drawn to scale, 

 and appearing exactly from their perches as if they were in an actual airplane 6,000 feet 

 above the ground the landscape represents ; and while they look down on the stretch of terri- 

 tory thus represented the instructor below makes various-colored lights, representing various 

 kinds of artillery fire, according to a schedule as to order and speed. The students make 

 full note on their own maps before them of the location of the shots and prepare the radio 

 messages they would send were they at the front. These are checked up and the poor observ- 

 ers are weeded out, so that only the best men continue on to the front. 



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