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Title: Night Bombing with the Bedouins

Author: Robert Henry Reece

Release Date: October 11, 2008 [EBook #26879]

Language: English

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NIGHT BOMBING
WITH THE BEDOUINS

_By One of the Squadron_

ROBERT H. REECE
LIEUT. D.F.C., R.A.F.

_With Illustrations_

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, ROBERT H. REECE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

DEDICATION

_In a spirit of the deepest reverence I dedicate this unworthy effort
to the memory of a true sportsman, a loyal friend, and a gallant
officer who was killed in action while serving his Country as a
Pilot in the American Air Service,_

LIEUTENANT SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL

_America has given of the finest of her Youth to uphold the Cause of
Right, but she has given no one of more splendid promise than he,
whose service was an example of devotion to duty, of readiness for
action, and of undaunted courage._

_His life was an inspiration to the living "to carry on" and finish
the great struggle for which he died, that he and those like him may
not have died in vain._

CONTENTS

I. PER ARDUA AD ASTRA 1

II. THE "BEDOUIN" SQUADRON 12

III. THE BEDOUINS AT OCHEY AERODROME 39

IV. A NIGHT RAID 50

V. SOME EPICS OF NIGHT BOMBING 71

VI. THE GUIDING HAND 86

ILLUSTRATIONS

LIEUTENANT ROBERT H. REECE, R.A.F. _Photogravure Frontispiece_