Show YANKEE AIRMEN BOMB THE HUNS ST. ST MI MIHIEL HIEL VICTORY DUE IN PART TO THE THES S LL OF OF AMERICAN AVIATORS Swoop Down Into nto Woodland V Roads Attacking Transport Trams Fl Flying Flying Fly Fly- ing as Low as for Forty y Feet From From- Ground to Reach Quarry With the Army In France Magnificent cent cent work of or the American aviators under most difficult difficult- weather conditions condi condi- lions must not be forgotten in telling the story of of the St. St Mihiel victory To them was entrusted entrust d every kind of mission missIon mission mis mis- sion which falls t to toa a fl flying ing ns n's mans man's lot but hut the task in which they distinguished distinguished dis dis- themselves most perhaps was was' harassing the enem enemy's s withdrawal from the deepest part of the salient A careful study had be been n made of the roads by which the port must must move and these observations observations observations turn out to be str strikingly accurate accurate accurate ate showing that the Germans had bad thought out quite as care carefully ull as the Americans the exact spot which would remain open longest This was the gap between Vigneulles and anti court with St. St B Benoit as the center It thus tims happened that the American airmen airmen airmen air air- men found the transport sport trains exactly where the they expected to find them and their attempts to enforce delay were most daring Owing t to the weather conditions s the ceiling to use the airmans airman's technical term was wa's little more than a n thousand feet high and the dense rain occasionally occasionally made everything Invisible a afew afew afew few yards ards away but not one of the selected elected roads was left unattached The aviators swooped down Into the woodland roads fl flying only forty feet I from the ground to make sure of of targets Lorr Lorry after lorr lorry was wrecked ed and wagon teams torn to pieces b by dropped bombs or machine gun fire Ore |