V-2nd C4 Like the Racket Itself

[Dave Monroe]

   "He'd received his impetus--like the racket itself--from the World
War." (V., Ch. 4, p. 99)


"like the racket itself"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/10023711.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7556326

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1803578/

http://www.plasticsurgery.org/About_ASPS/History_of_Plastic_Surgery.html#Early%20Years

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/29759/positive_effects_of_war_time_plastic.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies#World_War_I

http://www.gilliesarchives.org.uk/index.htm

Plastic surgery of the face based on selected cases of war injuries of
the face including burns, with original illustrations (1920)

http://www.archive.org/details/plasticsurgeryof00gilluoft


"coeval with the century"

I.e., born in 1900, 17 in 1917 ...


"Breguets, Bristol Fighters and JNs"

Breguets

4, 5, 6, 12, 14, possibly 16, 17 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_Aviation

... currently ...

http://www.dassault-aviation.com/

Bristol Fighters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_F.2_Fighter

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=136

JNs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_JN-4

http://www.aviation-history.com/curtiss/jn4.htm

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19190006000

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Jenny/Aero3.htm