AERIAL DUEL OVER OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS.
SWIFT END OP GERMAN HAIDER. ; (Received August 30, 11.30 p.m.) , . \'" r ~ Paris, August 29.The fight at Senlis, north of Paris, in which one of the four German aeroplanes which attempted to attack Paris was- destroyed, was short and swift. Captain Brocard, of the French Flying Corps,, engaged the enemy. He succeeded in getting exactly over the German at a distance of 60ft. His machine-gun quickly did its work, the German machine falling in flames. The pilot and observer were frightfully burned, and were probably dead before their machine fell.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 7
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95AERIAL DUEL OVER OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 7
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