Was it not, perhaps, as near the mark as that of our airmen hosts on March 1st has proved itself to be?

In the midst of these conditions the fighting airman shoots, dodges, pursues, and dives, intent only on one thing, the destruction of his enemy, while the observer photographs, marks his map with every gun-emplacement, railway station, dump of food or ammunition, unconcerned by the flying shells or the strange dives and swoops of the machine.

The above airman-story sufficiently illustrates the state of affairs in war time.