Show YANKEE AIRMEN THE HUNS ST. ST MIHIEL VICTORY DUE IN PART TO THE SKILL OF AMERICAN AVIATORS Sw Swoop op Down Into Woodland Roads Attacking Transport Trains FlyIng Flying Flying Fly Fly- ing as Low as Forty Feet From Ground to Reach Quarry With the Army In France cent work of the American aviators aviators aviator under most difficult weather conditions conditions condi condi- must not be forgotten In telling the story of the St. St Mihiel ictor victory T To them was entrusted ever every kind of mission mission mission mis mis- sion which falls to a flying mans man's lot but the task in which they dis themselves most perhaps was harassing the enemy's withdrawal withdrawn from the deepest part of the salient A careful study had been made o othe of the roa roads s b by which the German transport transport trans trans- port must move and these observations observations turn out to be strikingly accurate accurate ate showing that the Germans ha had thought out quite as carefully as th the Americans the exact spot which would woul remain open longest This was mm-as- th the gap between VIgneulles and Thiaucourt Thiaucourt court with St. St Benoit as ns the center I It thus happened that the American airmen airmen airmen air air- men found the transport trains exactly the they expected to find them and their attempts to enforce delay were most daring Owing to the weather conditions th the ceiling to use the airmans airman's technical term was little more than a n thousand feet high and the dense rain occasIonally occasionally made everything Invisible In a afew afew afew few yards away but not one of th the selected roads was left The aviators swooped down Into th the woo woodland land roads flying only forty feet fee from the ground to ma mike make e s sure of their th jr targets Lorry after lorry was wa wrecked ed and wagon teams tennis torn to pieces by dropped bombs bomb o or machine gun gun fire |