AMERICAN AIR FORCE
INDEPENDENT OF HELP NOW
VALUABLE WORK BEING DONE.
(Received October 1, 2.30 p.m.)
, . NEW YORK, 30th September . Mr. Edward James, New York Times correspondent, says: The First American Army now has all American air-fighters, bombers, pilots, and observers. For the first time since the United States entered the war, the. American divisions in the latest offensive did not have to depend on help from the French and British airmen. The Americans are still ■ using French and 1 British machines, but American-built aeroplanes are arriving in France faster and faster, and soon the American airmen will use American planes entirely. The American flyers, since Thursday, have made. countless flights, taking hundreds-of photographs behind the rearward German defence system. The bombers have done immense damage at enemy strategic points far back in enemy territory ; and-by forming a cordon with a hundred battle-planes round the sector of the Meuse, the American airmen prevented the enemy flyers from reaching' the American line.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 8
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