John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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RFC Per Ardua Ad Astra
and immediately gets "cocky". Finally he thinks"Ach! If der Pritish can blay at dot game, so can I" and he starts to climb through the nearest hole in the clouds and you fall on him again. You see, the matter of maneuvering for position is like a great game of hide and seek, with success for the man with quickest "thinker". As the Hun is naturally a slow-thinking animal, it is seldom hard to outguess him - though of course there are exceptions, as in the case of their good pilots - but these travel with a large number of retainers to ensure their own safety, and are not attacked by small
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.