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Show Aviators Learned to . Avoid Decoy Balloon Life was full of surprises, mostly unpleasant, for the aviation forces during the World war, as related In the war diary of a young American flyer Id Liberty. For Instance, he wrote, "There's a Hun balloon that's rather close to the lines. They always al-ways pull down the others when they nee us coming, but they leave this one up. It looked like easy pickings and we asked the commander If we couldn't drop down and get It some time when the wind was with us strong. He said he'd Investigate nnd that we'd better leave balloons alone until we were sent after them, becnusf they were Tory dangerous toys, i "He got word from the brigade that this balloon Is a dummy," the diarist further recorded, "and la 'there ns a decoy. About four batteries bave It ranged," he explained, "and instend of listing a passenger basket. It's loaded with amonal, and as soon as some sucker dives-on It, the Huns will explode ex-plode it usd that will be the Inst heard of him. . , . This Is certainly nice frendly little war," |