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but with the man in the air, the infantry man feels peculiarly helpless.  This feeling is not altogether justified by the facts in the case.  The speed with which the airman comes and goes operates no less to disturb his marksmanship then that of his foe afoot.  But the latter, in fact, does not feel this.  His instinctive belief, on the contrary, is that he is at a distinct disadvantage.  The first thought of a line of men attacked from the air, is never to fire back, but to escape.  In coping with aircraft too, a peculiar personal element enters; few men can dispossess themselves of the sensation that the hostile airman has his eye fixed on them alone, and is both able and determined to destroy them.  Nor could reason convince them that they were but a small an invisible part of the adjacent country.  It is no exaggeration to state that nearly every man of many thousands who would view a hostile airman, believed the latter had his attention particularly concentrated on himself.  Most men have an exaggerated idea of the extent they fill a landscape.

So that this mere fact of altitude gives to the airman a great moral effect.  Man's chief fear is man.  When one of these opposing men gives the impression - however false it may be - of invulnerability, incredible swiftness and all-embracing vision, the normal fear of man for man grows.  It is this moral effect which must be reckoned with.  To judge the effect of air attacks by the material destruction wrought, would be as fallacious as estimating the number of enemy a draft of recruits could kill, from their initial score of "centers" on the target range.  It is exaggeration

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