BRITISH AIRMEN
TRIBUTE FROM CAPTAIN BOELKE
AMSTERDAM (Undated).
In interview Captain Boelke (the German champion aviator, who was reported on Monday as having been brought down in the Verdun area by a French aviator), said he regarded the British airmen as brave and tenacious sportsmen. The fact 'that so many had been brought down in the German lines did not prove their unskillfulness but their intrepidity.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 146, 21 June 1916, Page 7
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66BRITISH AIRMEN Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 146, 21 June 1916, Page 7
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