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Title: Air Service Boys Over The Rhine
Fighting Above The Clouds

Author: Charles Amory Beach

Illustrator: Robert Gaston Herbert

Release Date: October 3, 2010 [EBook #33834]

Language: English

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AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE RHINE

OR, FIGHTING ABOVE THE CLOUDS

BY CHARLES AMORY BEACH

AUTHOR OF "AIR SERVICE BOYS FLYING FOR FRANCE,"
"AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE ENEMY'S LINES," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
ROBERT GASTON HERBERT

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.
AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK

MADE IN U.S.A.

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY

[Illustration: BLOWING UP THE GERMAN MUNITION FACTORY.]

CONTENTS

I DOUBLE NEWS

II ANXIOUS DAYS

III ON TO PARIS

IV SUSPICIONS

V THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS

VI THE RUE LAFAYETTE RUINS

VII TOM'S FATHER

VIII WHERE IS MR. RAYMOND?

IX VARIOUS THEORIES

X THE "DUD"

XI A MONSTER CANNON

XII FOR PERILOUS SERVICE

XIII THE SPY

XIV WITH COMRADES AGAIN

XV THE PICKED SQUADRON

XVI MISSING

XVII SEEKING THE GUN

XVIII A CLOUD BATTLE

XIX QUEER LIGHTS

XX THE BIG GUN

XXI DEVASTATING FIRE

XXII OVER THE RHINE

XXIII OFF FOR GERMANY

XXIV PRISONERS

XXV THE ESCAPE

AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE RHINE

CHAPTER I

DOUBLE NEWS

"Here they come back, Tom!"

"Yes, I see them coming. Can you count them yet? Don't tell me any of
our boys are missing!" and the speaker, one of two young men, wearing
the uniform of the Lafayette Escadrille, who were standing near the
hangars of the aviation field "somewhere in France," gazed earnestly up
toward the blue sky that was dotted with fleecy, white clouds.

There were other dots also, dots which meant much to the trained eyes of
Tom Raymond and Jack Parmly, for the dots increased in