Show YANK AVIATORS S WINNING WINNIN G FAME progress so rapidly in italian camps they amaze instructors MANY GUARD COASTS their watchful eagerness Is s of great help in spotting sneaky submarines all are anxious for action american navy aviation camp somewhere in italy dack back there at home you have nil all heard by this time of the thrilling exploits of american aviators on oil the nave river the abaiy aviators who dropped their bombs on the frail austrian pontoon bridges and helped turn the enemy invasion into a disastrous retreat it Is now permitted to announce that american nav naval al aviators are also alding aiding the italian defense for more than three months now flow there bronzed boys of ours skimming the air in their flying boats have kept hept their constant igal of c coast ast patrol along the italian seashore watching for the stealthy moving blur beneath the waves aves that means one of the foes submarines submarine scanning the lio li orizon for the specks pecks s which might be overbold austrian destroyers or rising beyond the file clouds that screen the seaplanes sea planes As a matter of fact american naval flyers are operating cooperating co with the navies of all the great allies in europe numberless eyes are required down domn the long coasts from the north b aea ca to the mediterranean find and the united states Is furnishing its share as fast as possible this work of course Is all under admiral sims but there Is special headquarters for american naval aviation under capt II if 1 I cone in paris tills this system of american co opera tion has been developing since last august and naturally will extend in the future as our naval forces grow in france naval aviators were the first to fly beneath our alag but in italy the effort of the american americ an navy is comparatively new the number of our wen men now dow there is a matter of military information therefore a secret but there are enough t to have hare done plenty of u atul work wo our flyers relieve italians alia work falls into two branches the tal taking ing over of the actual operation of coastal air patrols from the italians and thus relieving italian flyers for other duties and the training of our own men for further endeavor tn the same direction of course the wen beai nho ho are actually actual operating above italian waters are finished aNia aviators tors most of whom learned the game in the naval flying schools which have sprung up since the war along our bawn atlantic coast hut but the chaps who fire geidig their in italy ire rapidly catching on the american training school lies on itie e shores hores of a charming italian lake circled by picturesque hills bills right beside it Is another training camp for italian naval flyers and the candi t dates in bothi both camps have developed a ready camaraderie our camp ends in a little public kuplic square which in honor of the americans now boasts a new name the piazza degil stitt stall here the diio flags the red white and blue and the green white and red float all day together at dawn and sunset they are raised and lowered side by side before uniformed squads representing each nation it is a bit of symbolism that counts americans make swift progress the lot of splendid american boys at our camp most of them fresh freh from college are getting on in a way that Is inspiring many of them are already solo flyers and will soon be turned out equipped tor for active service they are up at dawn all of them and more anxious about the 11 weather reather than they used to be tit at home hoine on oil the morning of the big intercollegiate football game you see every roan man Is trying to squeeze in as many lying flying hours as the lay day will hold in order to pass quickly to ills his first brevet E each ach is on tiptoes tiptoed to take a hop this is naval air slang for a trip in the air their talk Is all a jargon of motors and planca of spirals or peaking her over 1 or straightening her out and it falls more familiarly from their lips than even the home grown ratter patter of the baseball fiend the instructors are all americans tind they are certainly on the job this shows in the spirit ol of endeavor denvor on and swift swift progress among the men many of these students have hav seer seen aenice ice in france in other branches no 0 o wonder their bealts are now in this bigger opportunity they are well cared for they sloop in comfortable new barracks and have I 1 their at an ail officers club though you often see a man with his coffee and bread clear down on the beach so BO lie he wont miss the chance of a hop inside the barracks they have toed it up as much like home as they could with bits of pictures and mementos ticked tacked up on the walls find and on doys days when ahen the skies sides are tangled alth storm lie he college flavor comes out more than ever for the thes all the young leads heads are b bent ent studiously over books cramming on N and A navigation and nd 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