News Letter 1941 Jul-Dec - Air Force Historical Studies Office

KEEP ,EM FLYING!
Blood and hunger, hunger and blood,
Red and white and white and red;
Fed and famished, famished and fed,
Bleeding and full, full and bled;
This is the law of the living and dead.
"Keep 'em Flying 1" if you would eat,
Wolves are waiting to gnaw your meat.
Fight to hold the power and might,
Greedy wolves will tear and bite;
strength alone they know as Right,
"Keep 'em Flying 1" and WINthe fight.
"Keep 'em Flying 1" through rain and fog,
Through thunder and lightning and mud and bog.
Wheels must turn both night and day,
Wheels and speed and power to slay;
These for us NC!N,without delay.
Wings and wheels and bombs and wings,
Menand womenand robot things
Marching and working and fighting and flying,
Singing and shouting and straining and trying,
All together, we "Keep 'em Flying!"
"Keep 'em Flying 1" through heat and cold,
Fill 'em up, WE can't be told
By Hitler HOWor WHEN or WHY-
Flying menwill all defy
Weaponshidden in a lie.
Freedom is our greatest power,
God the Hero of this hour,
Fai th in Him the beacon tower.
Wings and wheels and bombs and wings,
Menand womenand robot things
Marching and working and fighting and flying,
Singing and shouting and straining and trying,
All together, we "Keep 'em Flying!"
-John WarwickDaniel III