Air Service Boys Over the Rhine Fighting Above the Clouds — Charles Amory Beach

"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 size, like oncoming birds. But they were not birds. Or rather, they were human birds.