THE AERIAL STRUGGLE
FRENCH TALLY OF MACHINES DESTROYED
LONDON, 3rd August, A French official message states: Between 2l6fc and 31st July we brought down twenty aeroplanes and two balloons, and caused twenty-one aeroplanes to descend; ten flying squadrons threw over forty tons of projectiles on the enemy's stations at Roulers, Metz, Thionville, and elsewhere, besides bombing factories, cantonments, bivouacs, and munition depots, and caused considerable damage. ' In the course of his description of the Ypres battle, Mr. Philip Gibbs declared that the Allied airmen performed unimaginable feats, firing their machine guns down chimneys, then flying round the front, squirting streams of lead through the open doors.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 7
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106THE AERIAL STRUGGLE Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 7
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