ANSWERING THE DEAD HAND
STORY OF ATR-FIGHTTNG.
LONDON. April 27. The British airmen continue their great work. One with a patrol at Estaires shot down six in a single day. He was not hart, though his machine was riddled. The accompanying patrollers each downed a German.
A British Xwo-Beater,. alone, on another occasion attached eight, and drove down three. The British pilot was three times wounded, and his machine caught fire, but he and his observer went on fighting till they reached No Man's Land, where our infantry brought in both. Recently a British two-seater, after shooting down the enemy, disappeared behind our lines. It fell two hours later, 20 miles distant. The occupants were found to have been shot dead with the same bullet.
Experts are of the opinion that they flew ungmded in a great circle, till their petrol was exhausted, as boats are known to have sailed with the sheet fastened with a dead man's hand on the tiller. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16848, 13 May 1918, Page 6
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