GREAT AMERICAN AIR SQUADRON FLIES INTO ACTION.
330 AEROPLANES DISPERSE GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK
ENTIRE SKY COVERED WITH MASS OF MACHINES. Rwitor? (Received 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 11. Reuter's correspondent at American headquarters, writing on Friday, saysr A magnificent spectacle was to be seen yesterday. The
Germans were reported to be massing for a counter-attack east of the
Meuse. Two hundred bombing machines were despatched, carrying 32 tons of bombs, and also 100 pursuit aeroplanes and 50 triplanes. They covered the entire sky, groups of a dozen flying in V-shaped formations. The rays of the sun turned them into flashes of silver until the entire heaven sparkled with its new constellations. The squadrons crossed the river, and in the face of their bombing the enemy counter-attack melted away. Twelve German aeroplanes unhappy enough to meet that mighty armada were sent crashing to the ground.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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