Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-08-06 17:20
This home base for aviators and their support staff includes hangars, airfields, and quarters for the enlisted men and officers, including separate mess halls.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-08-06 17:14
A "wing headquarters" - where the wounded narrator is ultimately stationed - is a command point for the supervision of several aviation squadrons (512).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-08-06 17:10
The aerodrome - an archaic term for an airfield - that the Royal Air Force aviators fly out of in "Ad Astra" and "All the Dead Pilots" is located somewhere "behind Amiens" ("Pilots," 513).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-08-06 17:08
A "wing headquarters" - where the wounded narrator of "All the Dead Pilots" is ultimately stationed - is a command point for the supervision of several aviation squadrons (512). It would have been some distance behind the front lines.
The store owned by Mr. Lilley, the "countryman who moved to town a year ago," is described by the narrator as "a small shabby street grocery whose customers were mostly Negroes" (47). When Gavin Stevens explains Lilley's relationship with African Americans to Chick, he mentions some of the articles that the store sells: chewing gum, bluing, bananas, sardines, shoelaces, hair straightener, meat, candy, lard (47).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Wed, 2015-07-08 18:56
From his brief letter to Sartoris' Aunt Jenny, we learn a great deal about the major who commands the R.A.F. squadron. First, he has written enough of these notifications to speak by rote about the deceased; he calls Sartoris "your son" when he is in fact her great-nephew. Second, he is compassionate enough to write such letters himself and to offer the comfort that burial was done by a minister.
