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dumps and concentration centers behind the ^[[enemy]] lines to the North is the unfeeling description of the story. To see the bombers set off and go on their dark journey is to marvel.

The type of English bombing plane in use is the "Fee"- (F-E) ^[[FE2B pusher, Bear??]] and the gigantic Handley-Page. Compared with our [[strikethrough]] squat [[/strikethrough]] tiny chasse machines these are ungainly monsters. They look it; one wonders how they ever gain the upper reaches with such [[strikethrough]]??  [[/strikethrough]] ill-appearing bulk - until one is told that low flying is the rule, and then makes closer inspection of the powers of these giants

The Fees have the protruding nacelle which forces itself forward beyond the wing surface. It is [[strikethrough]] therefore [[/strikethrough]] ^[[of the]] pusher type with the emmpenage (tail framework) trailing behind the motor in its mess of control cables. The observer and pilot indeed "sit on the world", [[strikethrough]] being [[/strikethrough]]