ARMY & NAVY: Mimicry

ARMY & NAVY

AIRDROME RAIDED—FOURTEEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED COLUMBUS R. R. YARD WRECKED CINCINNATI WIPED OUT RAID REPULSED—FOUR BOMBERS DOWN—CREWS KILLED—OUR LOSSES SLIGHT

Such would have been newspaper headlines last week if the Army's air war game over Ohio had been real instead of mimic.

As it was, 200 planes, divided between Reds and Blues, attacked, repulsed, dipped and dived over imaginary battlefields on which moved some 800,000 troops, seen only by the umpires.

Most spectacular of the air maneuvers was the Blue raid on the Red army supply base at Columbus. Fifteen...

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