Nuisance

In this week's Army and Navy Journal, the Air Corps's Major General Henry H. Arnold passed on the following tale from a U. S. military observer in Great Britain:

"I always knew the British fliers were tough babies. . . . But I never fully realized quite how tough they were until the other afternoon when I was out on a British airdrome. There was a low, overcast sky. A plane broke through the clouds. The British anti-aircraft artillery went after it hammer and tongs. It was clear to me that it was a British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line and a 19-year-old kid got out of the cockpit, walked over to the artillery commander, and said, 'I say, my good fellow, if this sort of thing continues, I shall have to report you.' "

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