BRITAIN'S AIR SUPREMACY.
FAULTY GERMAN MACHINES. LONDON. May 31. Correspondents on the western front give graphic details of the recent air battles. At, a, height of three miles the Britishers, whoso mastery of the air is indisputable, have frequent encounters with hostile groups, numerically superior, which, however, are easily brought down. Iho most extraondnary feature of the latest lighting is that, many German machines thus harried and outmanoeuvred are falling suddenly to pieces through faulty construction or defective repairs. They attribute. this to enforced husk' to make good the serious losses of the past few weeks, the Daily Chronicle's correspondent at j headquarters gives details of marvellous I air-fighting on the 27th. They show that ) thirty German machines were brought, down , ! thirty German machines were brought i down. Fifteen were seen to crash to earth or become, hopelessly afire. Fourteen were driven down entirely uncontrolled, and only one fell to gunfire, because so few of the enemy ventured over our lines. (
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 1 June 1917, Page 5
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161BRITAIN'S AIR SUPREMACY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 1 June 1917, Page 5
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