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Dealing with Air-Raiders at the Front: British Mobile Anti-Aircraft Guns in Action
Dealing with Air-Raiders at the Front: British Mobile Anti-Aircraft Guns in Action
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Air-raids at the front are not, as in London, merely an occasional visitation: they are an ordinary part of the day’s work, and of the night’s work also. Describing one moonlight raid in Slanders recently, Mr. Philip Gibbs writes : “There was the loud drone of engines and the barking of many ‘Archies,’ and between the stars, very bright and glinting, the twinkle of shrapnel bursting in many spaces of the sky, and searchlights creeping backwards and forwards to find the night-birds. Deeper than the sharp bark of our Archies ‘ was the explosion of a German bomb. ‘ Blighters,’ said one of the officers. Somewhere
over there, in a quiet village, death had come, perhaps, to a sleeping child or some tired woman. The a r-raiders seemed scattered over the sky. Later in the night a few bombs fell closer, and with louder crashes. . . . I wonder if the devils are over London to-night,’ said an officer. And he looked away to the North Star, and he was silent after that, thinking of some house below the star.” Our anti-aircraft guns and crews have attained high efficiency. as proved also in the rerent raids on England The gunners seem part of the merrchanism of the guns. rtanoson Coyr’iglt’d ,s Ihr tr,,,d Staite; aed CanarL
undefinedMounted on Motor-Cars Clamped to the Ground for Steadiness: Two British “Archies” Directing a Rapid Fire upon German Aeroplanes
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