AN EXCITING, ACTION.
LONDON, March 18. A naval airman tells a thrilling story of the North Sea fight last week. After fighting five enemies and machine-gun-ning a submarine, two British seaplanes attacked five other enemies near the coast and drove down one. Meanwhile the wireless man m the narrator's machino was Bhot m the neck. The narrator's own nun was so hot that the sights fell off. He then crawled back over the lower plane under heavy fire, and used the wireless man's gun until his ammunition was exhausted." The narrator ooncludes : "The action was mostly at 200 ft. range. It was a regular bulldog fight, and very dirty work. The air was full of lead and • smoke." , I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 4
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