The armament of our enemies is steadily improving and their number is increasing. When Immelmann shot down his first victim he had the good fortune to find an opponent who carried not even a machine gun. Such little innocents one finds nowadays only at the training ground for beginners. We both were in Boelcke's squadron of chasing aeroplanes. We had previously met one another and had got on very well.
Comradeship is a most important thing.
We went to work. I had already bagged seven enemies and Immelmann five. At that time this was quite a lot. Soon after our arrival at the front we saw a squadron of bombing aeroplanes. They were coming along with impertinent assurance.