The Work Of Aeroplanes
DISASTROUS TO GERMANS,
* ' LONDON, March 2i. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Aeroplanes on Monday, were' almost exclusively employed bombing and machine 'gunning troops and transports behind the battle front. Twenty-two tons of bombs and over one hundred thousand rounds of machine gun ammunition were used. All the pilots report that the ground targets surpassed description. They were able to drop bombs accurately, and rire into the centre of infantry battaiions in close formation and columns of cavalry and transport). Air' fighting was less us tense than on the previous day. We brought down thirteen enemy machines. Ten others were uncontrolled. Eight of ours are missing, mostly due to fire irom the ground while flying low. + During the- night we continued to bomb and machine gun troops in the forward areas, and transports upon the roads.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13658, 28 March 1918, Page 3
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