Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
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81 already tcrror-strickcn soldiers.
rs Soon there is battlc-royal raging.
SssNearly a hundred machines are en-
gagged in combat. The Germans fight
3 we'll, but the enemy easily get The
Worst OF il. and are gradually forced
away.
8 ~ Meanwhile our machines continue the
work of lighting the German infantry.
= Bombs are still being dropped and i
number of our low flying machines are
x at work with machine guns. Whole
sattalions arc put TO flight, suffering
terrible casualties as they ny. The
: road beneath us is Uttered with dead.
Wounded arc trampicd undcrfoot in ths
mad scramble for safety.
Our fighting squadron passes quickly
along the road. We sec strange OBJ
S1ects moving down the road some dis.
lance ahead. We recognize them as
cavalry on the march
We descend low and drop bombs IS
we descend. With the explosions
horses and riders arc blown 10 bits
1 in all directions. The surviving ami
mails turn and fec in terror before
this nce foe. Riders are pitched into
the road.
WcSSo; still lower and fire away as
( fast as VIC can with our machine guns
One by one horses and riders arc
knocked OUT. ana very soon there are
no more TO be killed.
Our next move Is along the railroad
Trans re running with little MORO
than hal, a mile between them. They
s@are heavily laden with supplies We
get over the frst train ana drop bombs
There arc explosions beside the track.
but tho train moves still. That won't
90 Another Try. This time success
beyond doubt.
The train seems TO buckle up In the
middle. the end coaches mount on ton
OF the front ones. and all disappear
in blaze and a roar.
ON comes "A second train. We wonder
whether it will be necessary to waste
bombs on it, will it crash into the
"Eeckase OF the first. Even as We
wonder the second train runs fall
speed into the first and there is the
tremendous roar OF collision. fol-
lowed by a series o. EXPLOSIONS
Fly now the t-uns have had time TO
stop the trains following. and we dart
forward 10 pounce OH them We get
our bombs home. series of roars and
hAshes are heard and seen. aud we
kpoT' that our task is we'll done.
VIC cross tho railway under heavy
fire from the enemy guns. and move
in westerly direction There is a
signal We are over German rest
canr' where troops who have played
their part IN tho two days battle are
resting after their cxertions. We de-
sccnd :ow and drop bombs. Grca,
Eiarcs rise up from below simultanc-
ousiy with the noise OF many cxpIo-
sions
.i
stricken figures run Our low-evinr
planes arc after them. Bullets whistle
about the ears OF the terrified Huns.
thus rudcly awakened from their slccp
and their dreams OF victory and peace /
Hundreds OF the termed figures arc
shot down.
Our airpiancs now rise into the air
again, and arc off after a new objcc-
1--WE. RMS time IL is a slow moving
convoy OF guns and fodder The guns
arc TO batter our lines on the morrow.
The fodder is for The horses tina, are
- carry the kaiser's warriors along
IN pursuit OF our sorely-trlc infantry
probably the same horses that ,e
encountered earlier in the evening
we drop bombs along the whole
length OF the column Horses and mon.
Suns ana 'oddcr. all arc blown 10 bits
- "a" cAPioSio'S, out Still the rain
OF bombs continues. until there are
ncisner men nor horses 10 be seen
The whole column is wiped out.
Hh1rrLE WITH ENEMY MACHINES
LASTS FULLY ONE uou.,
AS we pass from this scene OF wreck
age eEemy machines appear. They give
battle, which lasts for fully an hon
we destroy outright eighteen enemy
machines. and force at least six others /
10 so down Two OF our machines
arc driven. down in Names. and one Is |
damaged. Btu ma mage s TO &c, home an /
right.
All the way back we arc fred on /
oy me enemy sunncrs. but their fire
= Is 1ncnective. We pass over their unce
-Sand see their infantry move ahou, in ,
readiness for the great battle that is
to be renewed on the morrow. I.iua /
no they know that the munitions ana
the men on whom they have been rely.
ing Will not keep tryst with ,b.,, 80, "
the morrow. Little do they know ina,
we arc overhead and little do they ex I
pect the showers OF bombs tina, de-
scend in their midst
ON that part or the line the bat,lo
was not resumed according TO plan"
the next day, and our infantry were
'apie 10 make the withdrawal; ncros. I
sarH as sequel to the surprise OF Tho
hfst day without being hammered t
the enemy.
That was the end OF "perfcc, 4, -"
Tor our air service. May we have man.
more such