The Cordova daily times., 1917-07-02
AIR F|GH TING |S GRAPHICALLY
 DESCRIBED
(By United Press)

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, June l5.-(By Mail) - Fighting with machine guns and even revolvers, pilots of battle plants are today making the clouds as hotly a contested battle ground as is to be found on the earth below. Summer lskies and fine weather have forced fighting in the air on large scale.
 One British pilot attacked by a Ger man Newport. found his machine gun jammed. Immediately he put down his nose and dived, fixing his gun at the same time. Relieving the jam, he every round of ammunition he had for the machine gun. The German, still apparently unharmed. continued to fight, so the English boy - less than 2l years of age - drawing his Colts automatic pistol. charged straight at the German, firing seveu shots at him at close range. The German toppled and fell. his machine breaking in two in the air.
 Here is the official report of another air fight which happened the same day. Names and numbers only are omitted:
 l Captain Blank, with three others ! of the same squadron, dived at Ger 1 man aeroplane. which they riddled with bullets and drove down. Then , they saw four red Albatross scouts, and Captain Blank engaged one at close range. Eventually the German machine got into favorable position and Captain Blank immediately put his machine into spin. On shaking off the German he at once regained height and dived at another Scout with whom he fought for consider able time. He finally outmanoeuvred his opponent, and the hostile machine crashec. Shortly he engaged another machine of the same type, but was shot through the wrist and the top of II hiS tOhAioi toNEf WhS away r. Although in great pain and flying at disadvantage. he succeeded in land ing his machine undamaged on our side of the lines and then tainted"
 While this was happening at one part of the front, another battle was taking place at another only short distance away. A photographic recon naissance, with & small escort, was at. tackled by seven German planes. A captain drove down one of the hostile machines out of control and then dived at three others. which were following one of our machines down. He was unable to catch up in time. however, and our machine was forced to land in field, but he eventually succeeded in engaging one of the German machines, which crashed quite near ours.
 Second Lieutenant B. opened fire at a large white two-seater which went down and was seen to crash by other pilots.
 Lieutenant C. drove down a black and white German scout, which was also seen to crash. A third hostile machine was destroyed by Lieuten- ant D.
 l The Germans are painting their ma chimes all colors of the rainbow and some os the shades not to be found | there. And not satisfied with solid reds, greens. blues and so forth, vari. ous combinations are seen. There are yellow topped wings with green under. meath; white wings with violet bodies !; blue and gold wings and red noses silver wings and striped bodies; can ary colored bodies with blue tipped wings and more curious combinations still. German pilots, 1t appears. when supplied with machines can then dc pretty much as they please with them painting them any desired colors and even changing the shape.
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