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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1941-9-24, Page 3T}R DRU.SSEb.S :Po' .. „1uub1 3 tMlret wee of ettnevelt.bt I different Pattern. H.allabebase Lee these on a brcyele controlled the ,nloaoil—st tura to right ur left made the turret turn and by Ilf. jug up or 1'areeeiva down,the Mil chine guu sus euored, Actual practice with Ittaalttu guue lis carried out over Lake Erie The planes used are Faire Rattles, heat earlier le rho war a. medium bont'liei'a, Some at' "drogue —planes;) painted with ye low and ,biaek stripes tis a ware Ing to other plane0 that they 00 t3 ailing behind them a long 011e wire. At the end of the . wire ttaueets a drogue, or -:loth target cylindrical iu shape and about oig'i feet ding. The machine gnawers go up lwa at a time In another Plano of ul- t liar drape. Au expen enced pilot sits up in front, the , two gennors side by side bash near thetail, where It is rather bumpy. The planes follow a definite schedalc, meeting the drogue plane out aver tete lake and firing in 'a certiiu area. Bullets in the machine guns are dripped in paint. Those fired by one gunner leave red tholes; The other blue. That cute the flights In hay and requiees less targets, ' LVery slaty, won and balmily dose, is A c4ulr1610m 6o aldary," '1'n13 1'Ruo03 WNW=R' ar CANAUA, A Mechanized Army Serving YOU Mechanized and motorized units --these make Up the Modern army. You have often noticed Bell lino crews with their trucks along the highway, Those too are pi Mechanized, motorized unite, each with a highly skilled crew; each completely equipped with tools, power, material, In en emergency they can be mobilized — quietly, ,/'" quickly, efficiently -- to repair the havoc wrought b - storm, fire, or flood. Tire equipment they carry -- standardized apparatus of many kinds - - makes pos- sible the speedy restoration 'of vital service. Preventive maintenance, preparedness, experience, and 01011 -- these all serve 10 ensure that your message 4 will get through with minimum delay in any cmc-' gency—a vital contribution to tiro country's war effort.> Aav4 .sG>" J7 • F+3Yf °P cu,n� 0 % ani— Bombing and Gunnery Specialized Occupations are This is the last of the series of r, fraction of what the stories about 'the train ng of Pilots and Observers in the R.C.A.F.,'under the British Commonwealth Air Train ing Plan, written for the weekly newspapers of Ontario and dlaitribut- ed through the C.W.N.A. .. By HUGH TEMPLIN Until I visited the rnrvis Bomb- ing and Gunnery School, I had supposed ,that the Initial Training School at Eglinton was the mast interesting place 'tltu Royal Can- adian Air Force had to show Ils. vdsibors. At Banton, the 'doctors, now disguised as Flying Officers, carry on scientific experiments :.in low pressure chapn'bers, attach el- ectric wires to the skull to; test the brain waves, and send men' and materials into chambers where cold winds blow at 40 'below zero There's nothing like that at Jar- vis. Science and, mathematics and invention bare combined to Pro- duce the wonders that are kept locked up In special Ibaildinke at lite Bombing and Gunnery Sohool, but they have to do with the arts of war and destruction, rather than mediolne and healing. Atter a convention in 1lamilten an May, a group of editors and their ladies spent an afternoon at wings parade at Jarvis school, and then saw the buildings and learn- ed something of the training meth. ods. They marvelled at the beaut. Rutty .tarnished recreation rooms. They had fleeting glancesof bomb sights In the noses of Fahey Battle bombing planes or noticed the loads of small practice bombs abtaohed to the wings, They saw the drogue planes come in. and drop t+he drogues, or targets, rid- dled with machine gun bullets and they felt grateful for an insight into the training of the student. observers in he R.O.A.F. and kin. deed A,ir Forces of the E aspire. Really, what they sin was only wti i 1 bullets; cannon The dlrogue plane circles back over guns; gunnery' the field and drops its, drogue, releasing another at the end oe the, wire to take Its place. Magna of the planes with the, gunners take only about ten mimes. tactiles; types of turrets, and air. cittft recognition. That doesn't mean meek to most of us, bet it sounds like a student heavy course of study to be mast- ered in six. weeks. :First p•nacttce with actual mr.- 1 chine guns is on, the 25 -yard range. Vickers guns are used there though they are now out -dated and Brewmings are used for more advanced work. The machine gunners stand ineide a long build- ing, .alien at the front, and sheet 'at targets 'with bursts of fire. eight to 15 bullets at a time. sees. ,I was at Jarvis school w th the other editors in May. I returned in August and, was admitted to the various ba+sidings where the doors are kept locked and few are prate ileged to enter. d was allowed in use the power driven machine g'tn turret.% off actual fighting planes; I was . initiated, into the mysteries Of the bomibsight, as Ear as was pos&ble in an hour or so; I was offered a flight with one over the water .of nearby Lake Erie, and I that literally amazed me. Group Oaptain G. E. Wait its the Commanding Officer of the Jarvis School. Alrter a cordial welcome, he turned me over to Flying Officer G. T. Johnson, with instructions that I was to be shown everything and allowed to try out, the variou3 machines used in training. And Plying Officer Johnson literally carried out those instructions. 11 T didn't learn everything about bombing anti the use of machine seine, it was because one can't do that in at afternoon. First, we went over the details of the souse of study together. It was like the curriculum of a unI- versity course in engineering, with its various formulae and its ap- pMed mathematics. I wondered that students could pick it 1.11) 011. leeiz they had been particularly good in matbematkcs in their high snccol days, but the Flying Orli- e” said tbat fen failed. These who "'''d nes understand the theor- ies could memorise the formulae, 'Sh+rties 'meluded the theory of bombing; trajectory angles, use of the 'Vector attachment for bomb• sights when aiming at moving tar- gets; setting bombsights; low and bleb level bombing; wind drift and problems arising from It; fuses and carriers; use of flares; theory of sirhting macbltue guns; tracer Inside another building, 1n sep- w arate roams, are power'operatect machine gun barrels which gave the British gunners an advantage early in the war. They were cone pletely equipped but the actual guns had been removed and re. placed by dummy guns which shot a ray of light at a tiny German pane which moved against n painted sky. A student was bang- ing away at it, and every time he -scored a hit, a hell rang. Amuse - anent parks have similar devices, -niithout the turret, which is the important part. The- young mad at the camera gun was doing fair ly well„ scoring bits with nbou'' half his slices. Dials on a nearby desk indicated exactly- what he was doing. he finished ane 1 slimmed up in snide the turret. A table lowered over my knees and a lever at my site brought up a. seat and wedged me in like a sardine in a can. Ap- 'p'arently I was a bit oversize ti make a good gunner. Five or rix switches set the machinery in nation and I looked through a email reflecting sight, already le. scribed) in an earlier story. With my left hand. I worked a "sticky similar to those..that control small 1)101159. A touch of my thumb rn a button on top of the lever st(1rt- ed the machine gun. But llin mechanism- was too fast for tae. I got in a few shots, but I spam“I not a hit, 7r1177711'yirt Bombs and bombiny hape be- come important in this war. Muria might be written about them. The bombs are of several types, de. pending on the purpose for which they are intended: They tend to increase in size, weigat and :els. tructiveness. Some explode on contact; others go through the roof and explode inside a building or a ship, There are bombs that pierce armor before exploding. The bombs can, be adjusted for varioas punposett haying different types of detonators in nose and tail. Bombs are carried .on racks, underneath the wings, inside 'the fuailage or it other places, depending on the type of bombing plane. They. are released eleotrically by pulling a little lever. Much has been heard about bomb sights in recent months.. The bomb sight is an elaborate in. .slvument used to ensure that the bomb will land on or -ear the teen :get. In the early days of the last Great War, bombs were sdmnly d"^ixned over the edge by the pil-rt Planes proved slowly and fairly low, Even at that, many of these first bombe lm'ebabbly lauded a mile from tbe plaice they were intende;i to stake. A modern bombsight is a meet ec•mplica'ed instrument. The -e ase some ten adjustments. Net only the height of the plane above the ground, the speed at whteh it ie ttthvelling, the Urethan and velocity of the wand affect the fall of the bomb, but even the temper- ature. emperature. The bombsight is covered with knobs and dials and scales. When all these thave been adjusted, tha 'through an eyepiece, He sees at .aupaa'ently moving down between two peals of wires with colored beads at intervals along them. At last, the railway station, factory eeilie "A SALUTE THOUSANDS of pageant -hungry OMB, diens thrilled to "salute to Valor" at the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto. Conceived and staged by the Chrysler Corporation of Canada, Limited, Main portion of the show demonstrated lopnetntctioa Of artily trucks, gun -making teed manufacture el marine motors and knkft and evolved around a gigande book a�a- TO VALOR" Lion's War effort, Scores of girls,odressed in appropriate military costumes paraded the flags of the Empire's Dominions and Antes in brilliant pageantry, Above, the New Zealand flag is benefited. More than ,150 flags were paraded by per- fokmee. Picture et right shows two mart cadets representing the United States; 'vale Inset 'shows two buabied 410 f Wednesday, exit=; el' 24th, 1404 * We pre.- OrIlte lustze once by MAW Iyxingr what you need .--- and by seIb•. ing you only what you need — WALTER SCOTT Brussels Representing Writing selected risks in — Automobile, Tire, Plate Glass, Burglary, Public Liability, and other general insurance. ;dead Office, Toronto. or whatever the targets may be appears between tyo tiny pointer .the observer pulls a lever and t .bomb :starts on its way. It m1 be 20 seconds before it hits and, au other ten before it explodes. Students learn to operate the bombsight with the aid of a "teacher," which is one of the most interetibing and ingenious machine- I ever saw. It is con. Maned in a specially -built three. storey building and kept locked. I watched Flying Officer John son adjust the bombsight, after drawing lines 501'055 the face of its comlpass and making .calculations Then I lay on my stomach and looked 'tihrougb the sights, We were in the gallery of the building. ,Opstaire intricate projectors, de. signed by a British inventor, ad - 1E1 -Med for altitude, wind speed and so on, ground away. Down below me, the landscape of the enemy countny moved past. I road see its farms, the towns and cities, the line of :the coast. I chose a fact - cm, in the distance, watched; it. come down between. the wires and as it reached the pointer, pulYad P' the trigger. or same twenty see - end's, the time at took that bomb to drop, the scenery moved past. 'Then it stopped and a white lign'-• showed where tbe bomb had land- ed. Actual bombing is done over Lake Erie. Small practice bombs attached under the wings of the Fairey Battle are aimed at a rad raft from heights well over a mile. A puff of smoke goes up as the tomb hits the water. 'Observers on. shore watch tate puffs of smoke use some simple ti'igonamttry, and Piot the places where the bombs drop. The student marks where he thought they went. The best target hangs in the conference room. Over it is a sign; 'Beat this and }roues will tang here instead.' Also, no doubt, the owner of *h, target will head his class at the next wings parade, All Mothers Are Alike th I One of the nicest things we read- y eady lias(t yeek was: that; Mary, the Queen Mother, was saving every clipping about the Dalte of Kent's visit to Canada. 'Soniebew that touched ne venw much. The Duke of Kent is her , youngest child and no doubhht holds a special place just because be fel d her "baby." Any mother can .. .appreciate that, and somehow those earefully saved clippings; bring the semen Mother very close to everT mother in the land. THE END. HIGHEST -ASH PRICES PAID FOR EGGS AND POULTRY dintomiu M. SAMIS PHONE 80 — BRUSSELS —v— Bananas May Be Next To Go Canadians may add another to - their List of probable eadly sacrifices designed to aid the war effort— bananas. There as a possibility that bananas may soon be more or less a matter of ancient history in, this part of the Dominion, because it is reported that the government of the United States may comman- deer banana boats to cope with the shortage of ships caused by sub- marine attacks. Just what the boats will carry instead of bananas has net been revealed, but it is telt that the cargoes.3lvill not be fruits, that are more or less the luxury class, but will be items of .more iaportauce in w'arhime peoduction needs. V' THE GOODYEAR LUG Heavily rein- forced bars help this tire gee sure traction for heaviest loads. THE GOODYEAR STUDDED SURE -GRIP It's a tire with a tractor tread. Puile tt,4ht trucks through ... every time. • Stop delay and lost buelneas when roads get heavy and going is tough. We have a Goodyear fire that will keep your truck going in any weather. Drive in and see us today! Anderson & Elliott Brusstyhs,, Ontario WESTERN CANADA SPECIAL BARGAIN EXCURSIONS FROM ALL STATIONS IN EASTERN CANADA GOING DAILY Sept. 12 — 26, 1941 Return Limit — 45 days. TICKETS GOOD IN— Coaches, In Tourist Sleeping Cars or in Standard Sleeping Cars at Special Reduced Rates for each class. Cost of accomodation In In Sleeping Cars additional. BAGGAGE C•HECKEDb$topovers at all points en route, Similar Excursloes from Western to Eastern Canada timing Same Period. Tickets, sleeping Car Rcsefivattons and all Information from any agent. SEE HANDBILLS CANADIAN NATIONAL • j