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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Year 1915. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> CERTAIN facts are now beyond controversy even as regards the use of aircraft in war. Aeroplanes at the outbreak of hostilities were reasonably efficient in two respects: (1) as scouts; (2) as range-finders for artillery. But machines were not available for all the work that could be done; nor were there sufficient pilots. The scouting aeroplane flying through wind fog rain and hostile gunfire has enabled a Commander-in-Chief to see as Wellington longed to see what is “on the other side of the hill.” Several times its work as will be our purpose to show has been of supreme importance; and almost always its flights have been useful- augmenting but not superseding the patrol work of cavalry. To determine its exact effect on strategy is not easy; the factors are confusing. There is the abnormal length of battle-fronts to be considered the huge masses of men employed also the use of motor transport and the general speeding up of operations. (SP)