AIRMEN IN THE BATTLE
VALUABLE CO-OPERATION.
(AUS. ANp N,is. CABLE ASSN. AND RBUIER.)
LONDON, 4th September
Sir Douglas Haig reports: 0m- aeroplanes worked all 'day in front of the advancing battle-line, while 1' observation balloons followed up closely. Large formations of hostile machines frequently attacked our airmen, who persisted in their various tasks, maintaining contact with the infantry and artillery, and bombing and machine-gunning hostile troops and transports. They also silenced the enemy's anti-tank guns, and dropped supplies of small-arm ammunition to the infantny in the advanced zone. There was much air fighting. We destroyed ten hostile machines, and drove down two out of control. Twenty British machines are missing. We dropped twentyfour tons of bombs in. the daytime and at night.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 58, 5 September 1918, Page 7
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