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Show tellers Frftm Bingham Soldiers A letter from Sergeant P. 'PL iBosone. 1 somewhere In France, to Eugene Sui-, llvan; I i just came back from the front line on the left flank of Verdun, where we gave the Huns hell for sixteen six-teen days and drove them back twenty-five miles. The last day we were there a shrapnel bursted in my squad while we were dividing our rations, and got five of my men, among thrift Jesse Ireson, who I think you will remember. re-member. One of my men died before he replied fie first aid station ,andj the other four are in the hospital. 1 Jesse was hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel, but I do not think it was very serious. 1 1 " i "We are now back filling our company com-pany up with men so we can go back again soon and see this thing over by next month it possible. I saw Harry Nelsen on my way back from the front. He Is with .the engineers. I "We are going to give them hell, Mr. Sullivan, while we have them on the run. So we can get back on the old job about the first of the coming year. Tell Dan I got a Dutchman for h,m-" - ' ' ""iZ flock of ducks and get quite a number, num-ber, but a dead duck got tangled up in his propeller one day and almost cost him his life besides wrecking the ship. So they put the jinks on that sort of sport. "This bunk about a ship being hard to ru)i Is the biggest jone in the world. A Ford Is ten times harder to manage. man-age. Of course the landing and taking tak-ing off are difficult, especially in a wind, but as for flying them, once they are off the ground I don't think there is a ten-year-old kid in Uing-hanv Uing-hanv that could not learn it in en hour. The controls are governed entirely by reflex action and the only time you have to think at all is in giving her direction, and then it is bimply push with the right foot if you want to turn to the left, and push with the left 1 foot If ,you want to turn to the right, j "Of course when it comes to trick flying, "stunting," it is simply a matter mat-ter of the best man with the most 1 herveu A fellow put me "through the book" laM Monday and although I knew I was strapped in so that it was 1 impossible to get out, I'm sure It j will take two weeks to work all my ' finger prints out of the cowling. He wound up with a barrel roll, a falling I eaf and then a tail spin unhide down. ' 1 think that the nr-a'cst thing that ever ev-er approached it was that fellow that went over the Niagara Falls inside a barrel and I doubt if he got all of It. "One of the cadets had a mighty exciting experience day before yesterday yester-day They went up with a leaky car-burator car-burator and began to feel around doing do-ing stunts about 6000 feet up and stopped stop-ped the motor. To start it they had to make a verticle nose dive about l1000 feet and when she started the exhaust set fire to the leaky gas, but the pilot sure was quicker than lightning light-ning that time. He just tipped her , over on one wing in a vertical bank and the tlames shot up between the wings and the gas burned out before It set fire to the fuselage or struts. .The cadet was sitting In the front cockpit and got his face and hair singed, sing-ed, but they still had 2000 feet altitude alti-tude when the gas burned out, and landed O. K. The cadet was cured. It was his lat ride, but the pilot was up again in another ship inside of an hour and is goin to take me up for a cross country ride this afternoon. iSome of these follows have no such .thing as fear in their makeup. I couid ! tell a hundred inc idents of this kind, but it is only once in a while that an accident brings any yellow to the sur-face. .Utter from A. it. Nehl, Centner Field, Lake Charles. Ha., to C. D. Mc-I Mc-I Neely: "Say. 'what In the dickens becomes of my copy of the P. B.f I got one at Camp Dick and one copy a month before that, Shoot her through, boy, I like to read the local scandal. ( "We are at a sure enough flying field now. This Is the one that Mayor Mitchell of New York, was killed at, and is considered one of the best in the V S. We havo excellent food, good barracks, and for the first time in my army experience, have a set of officers offic-ers that treat us with the consideration considera-tion that you would expect from one human being to another. In fact I am prcttv well satisfied. "The fifdd is located 1? miles southeast south-east of Lake Charles with one road leading to It, and is entirely surrounded surround-ed by a swampy wilderness. Every man has to take up a carrier pigeon when he goes up for a cross country, and In case of a forced landing he turns them loone with a message as to his whereabouts. If they cannot ' get to him they take' a lot of blankets and food In another ship and fly over him and drop It and he camps thre until they work out some sceme to get him out. , . "Tlvre are millions of ducks here and the cadets are allowed all of the ammunition they care to burn up and the nuns to do it with. If they have a pull they get a uhip and fly over the swamns and locate the ducks and laud it tiiLry can find a place and go after them. One fellow had two automatic shot guns mounted on his upper plane fun) had wires running to the cockpit. With this oufit he would -chase a |