AMERICAN AVIATORS
OVER FIFTY COMBATS IN
ONE DAY
(AUSIRAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) , (Received October 1, 8.30 a.m,): ■ WASHINGTON 1, 30th September. It is officialy announced that the American aviators during the latest American offensive brought down 60 enemy machines, -while,less, than 20 American aeroplanes were brought down. (Received October. 1, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 30th September. Mr. Edwin L. James, the New York Times correspondent on the American front, writes: The Americans engaged in fifty-two air combats in one day, and brought down, thirty-three enemy machines, withot the loss of an American aeroplane. The American, airmen on the versatile de Haviland machines attack. Ed German troops and machine-guns, and also brought down several enemy aeroplanes. Others dropped'4oo pounds of high explosives each, amidst groups of German soldiers, and silenced an entire battery. Our .regular bombers dropped two tons of bombs' on Etain, scoring seven direct hits,on the railway track. In one instance ■ thirtyrfour of our bomb-, ers wenfc far behind the German lines,. and were attackedl by thirty-six Fokkers, of which seven were.brought down. Five of the American machines have not returned.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 7
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