The Maginot Line

Will the Maginot Line hold? That's a rhetorical question. The Maginot Line is a line of steel ready to be shredded by Blitzkrieg and JU-88 dive bombers. No one surviving lives to tell the destructiveness of the Blitzkrieg to warn others, so let me warn you. Blitzkrieg tactics deal with elements of surprise. Before you know it death will be on your doorstep knocking. Rumor has it between pilots that one flak battery 15 miles long only holds 10 french soldiers; just enough men to warn others of an attack before they die. August (my brother) and I have both joined the German Luftwaffe. Flying for Lufthansa, The Party trained all pilots for free. You don't choose when you become Air Force. They choose for you. So, I am now in the Air Force. If we will be stationed near The Line, I do not know. I don't want to be stationed there. As much as I want the Maginot Line to crumble, I do not want to kill the man, but the machine (the plane). I could never serve Germany to kill a man on the ground, but I could to kill a machine. That is why I chose to fly.

Now or Never,
Stigler