Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
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Behind British Lines in France,
Dec. 1I--stories of daring escapades
Of British aviators, exciting aerial
combats from which the Mir light
ers escaped alive, seemingly only by
miracle and OF brilliantly executed
raids upon German aerodromes and
troops behind the German lines are
narrated in the reportsS.of the Royal
about one week. Hafr-raising. Incl
dents Of fierce conflicts above the
clouds or low over the German COM
munication lines are described in
these %succinct reports without bonn
bast, as though these narrow escapes
from death were commonplace \and
all in the days work of the air
fighter. g5"At
For example. there was the case
OF a British aviation officer who, when
nearly a mile above the earth, was
attacked by two enemy aircraft. He
shot down. Of them out of con.
troll but was himself wounded and
tainted while still high in the air. Re-
covering consciousness he found his
Of 1000, feet with one enemy aircraft
still firing at him. The Britisher,
however. managed after a struggle to
right his machine and land safely.
In a somewhat similar instance, a
German scout attacked a British air
plane carrying a pilot and observer.
One of the Germans bullets passed
ish airplane and seriously wounded.
the pilot. THE British observer, how
ever, pumped q full double drum of
bullets al h enemy scout at very
close quarters and the German went
to the ground with a crash.
Meanwhile the British pilot had
tainted and fallen against the steer
ing stick in such a fashion as to
throw the, airplane into a spin. The
British observer climbed over the side
and forward along the plane to the
pilots cockpit, lifted the pilot to his
seat and, still standing OF the wing
Of the plane released the steering
gear, brought the machine out If the
spin and safely. to the, ground.
from an expedition I'VE the enemy's
lines to locate hostile batteries when
their machine was hit by anti-aircraft.
fire and the engine damaged. Vol
planning. the machine 1anded 800
yards from the German side Of a ca:
nal. Running along the beach under.
heavy fire from rifles and machine
nal only to find it full OF barbed wire
hut managed to reach the British
Many Instances illustrating the
reckless. daring Of the British avia-
tors sent over the German lines to
obtain information, destroy aero
drones and X harry the German re-
serves are contained in the official
narratives. One pilot who crossed the
lines at, Ypres, threw of " attacking
machines, bombed the Heule aero
dtome rear. Lille and was fired upon
by two machine guns. He dived at
of the British airpIane, drove the
Germans from: their gums, fired upon
the aerodrome AGAIN. attacked and
scattered + :cSlunanh q 800 GermanFin
f"ntrynen on the roadsasA German
two-seater atrplane was circling 500
feet above him for an attack II
zoomed up under its tail and fired into
it," writes the British aviator. 1T
crashed down onto the railway"
Another British pilot had led q
hundred rounds OF German troops on
the march when he was interrupted
by two enemy airplanes. He attacked
finished the Job of driving the Ger
,r.nn infantry into trenches and rhell-
holes. - j. NJ
british aviator engaged in . revolver
duel with two German officers in q
motor andt while doing so ran into
come lines Of. telegraph wires but for
tunately hts machine cut them. "A
few minutes later he attacked Ger
man infantry which escaped. his gun
only by diving into a pond.
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