What a change has been wrought in methods of air fighting in the twenty-one years that have followed the signing of the Armistice in November, 1918. Gone is that glamour, that individuality, which air fighters of those days possessed. The day of aces, or so it appears, has passed. No longer do we read of the exploits of the "Dawn Patrol" the lone adventures of daring airmen or the wonderful feats performed by those early fighters in the "crates" they flew, as they blazed away at one another, in the early days at any rate, with pistols from their tiny cockpits. Today aerial warfare has lost its individuality. There is no glamour in the mass flights of bombers. War in the air has introduced a fear born of the development of aviation. The aeroplane of today knows no bounds. No longer is war confined to the battlefield. Gone, for all times, is that romantic halo which surrounded the air aces of 1914-1918.
In those early days of aviation there was no ruthless war as we know it today. There Sole Agents: S. A. CLERICI, BEDONI & CE., MEDICAL DEPT.
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