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1917
1917 - 0551.PDF
JUNE 7, By way of reciprocal help for spotting for them, our gunners at the front now, when suitable, put up abarrage to protect our reconnaissance planes against massed air attacks by the Germans while over their own lines. A correspondent recently reported as follows: " Rather a pretty spectacle was to bewitnessed near Gravelle yesterday. One of our aeroplanes had been swooped upon by nine German planes. The British machine got ahead of its pursuers, but this advantage could be maintained only fora short time. A couple of our anti-aircraft batteries thereupon put up a barrage as close as was safe in the wake of the chased plane and followed it along. The effect was very striking, and when one of the«nemy machines was seen to nose-dive and then spiral rapidly towards the ground, a confused, far-flung cheer was borne upon the breeze. After this the Huns abandoned the pursuit and our machine landed safely." $51 E 2
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