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| Kaoschallenged | 07 Nov 2013 8:10 p.m. PST |
When Sausages Blazed in the Sky
By Samuel Taylor Moore
"Call them sausages, drachen, or observation balloons—they played an important though now all-but-forgotten part in World War I. Here a veteran balloon company commander looks back at one of yesterday's proud air arms. Hail and farewell to the blimps. Like the best of us, they blazed across the firmament for but a brief moment in history. Now they are gone. The Air Force said good-by to lighter-than-air craft before Pearl Harbor. The Navy recently deflated the last of its big balloons. I am not here to plead, as some have, for a stay of execution for these great, prehistoric monsters from flying's past. But I think we ought to give the grand old balloons a decent burial. They fought a good war in their heyday, World War I. I flew in them-1 and other officers and men in an Air Service force that totaled eighty-nine balloon companies and 17,000 personnel at home and abroad by the time the Germans laid down their arms."
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