AMERICAN BOMBING RAID.
GREAT SQUADRON ENGAGED.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
(Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m.)
New York, Oct. 12,
The "New York Times'" correspondent at the American front states that an American bombing squadron, consisting of more than 350 machines, dropped 32 tons of explosives behind the German lines between Warville- and Damvilliers.
The squadron was composed of 200 bombing 'planes, 100 pursuit machines, and fifty troplanes. In a battle with the enemy twelve German machines were destroyed, and one American aeroplane 'was lost.
With the exception of the raid north of Verdun this is the largest undertaken so far on the West front.
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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105AMERICAN BOMBING RAID. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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