Air Service Boys, Flying for France

Download or read book Air Service Boys, Flying for France written by Charles Amory Beach and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Air Service Boys, Flying for France: Or the Young Heroes of the Lafayette Escadrille "Now then, good luck to you, Tom! Tell me how it feels to look down on the world from- the clouds." "Oh, I expect to have a high old time, Jack - three thousand feet of it, in fact. And my nerves seem to be as steady as ever." "You're a lucky boy, all right, to get this chance to try for altitude after being in the harness at the aviation field for only two months." "But my instructor tells me I was born for the life of a birdman, Jack." "I know you've talked, read, and dreamed of little else these two years back. And now, Tom, at last the germ has caught me almost as fiercely in its grip." "Yes, old boy, it means the pair of us working tooth and nail now, learning to fly, so when the time comes, we can take our places for Uncle Sam in the great game. And it isn't going to be so very far off now, with that fear ful war raging across the sea." "Well, look out for yourself, Tom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.