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LOCAL YANK SAYS A10 BE DESCBI?STORIES WITHOUT FACTSWriting to his father, Joseph Tow-ler, of this city. Private James B. Towler, 186th Aero Squadron, station-at Latrecy, France, express thelief that he will return to the United States in June. Private Towler enlisted in April, 1917. three days after the United State.s declared war on the German Empire, and has been in France for Fifteen months continuously*“I wish some of those fellows who write aeroplane stories or paint pictures of air battles could sec* an air battle once,” he says. “Some of them probably have seen an airplane. Others perhaps have read about one. However, their ideas of an air battle are unique. They seem to think that at least a thousand planes of the types used in experimental flying several years ago. fly at an altitude of about seventy feet. They imaginemmthese planes are painted like a circus poster. And their stories unloaded on the public don’t contain enough real facts about aviation to be worth leading. But the unsuspecting general public doesn’t know the truth about the aviation service, so the skillfully worded stories of the high-salaried writers continue to be accepted by editors.”Private Towler mentions seeing ome of the boys of the 2.rth regiment stationed at Toul. He says that hiscontingent expects to soon move from Latrecy. “We have a fine lot of officers,” he writes, “and at present weare caring for twenty-three planes ” Mi*. Towler speaks of the fine record of his regiment, made both inEngland and in France, and doses with the statement that this recordwill be further improved by the time the boys once again trod the soil of the United States.
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 22, 1919
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