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ferae| Above: This little racer \ is undergoing a final : overhaul at the pits before* going to the starting line,• Note manner in which( _car is held to track. Be-i low: The starters are /in* J ing up entrants in a race “ Aero- Note the judges' 1 stand.ivu iu tuts strange spori91 UlTiUij f‘RIANOOVERS’Dear Ma—Well I am just back from another manoovcr with my outfit and I don'tknow whether we won or lost on account of therewas a dispute between the umpires. One ruledLv-/ we was ex-y terminated and^ the other cameup with a decision that we was not even touched- It is all on account of the flag system witch I gess you never heard of so I will cxplane it toyou ma.Of coarse we do not shoot each other in these here war games but at the same time nobody can tell how the fight came out if it is all forgot as just a cross country outing, So a lot of flags is used to denote where we are and what happened, All we jeeps do is obey orders and we don't even know what the main idea is. But the observers and umpires who have the whole thing worked out on maps get a idea what wood of happened tf it had been a actual battle. Here is where the flags come in.An umpire waving a blue flag in* dercates that you are smack in the middle of an area witch is under artillery bombbardment and that it is a very unhealthy spot to stay in. If he has a yellow flag it is serposed to show that you are under machine gun fire and that if you go any further into it you wood be shot full of holes in a real war. AnotherL •_ -*. 1here motifs in the Wattf means that we are ad-
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Park City Record
Park City, Utah, US
Thu, Sep 04, 1941
Page 3
Full Page
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Erik F.
UT, USA 17 Apr 2025
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