The Guys on the Ground

xi, 170 pp. An overall picture of the servicing of fighter planes and fliers in the various theaters of war as exemplified in details of operations in the Air Service command, here and overseas. Here are tales of inventiveness of the ground-bound air men, the various crews and their achievements, the fears of converting enemy equipment to practical use for the Allies, the unbeatable combination of men and machines. The functions of the different aspects of the work and the equipment. Interesting human interest material on the Joes who make an air force possible, not a dry recital of facts but a live portrait of men and their work. Good war vocational material for the air-minded boys who cannot make the grade as fliers and who have a mechanical bent.