In addition, here is one of his letters with a statement of
the results of three chasing days. There are no longer headings or
endings to his letters; he makes a direct attack, as he does in the
air.
26-1-'17
_January_ 24, 1917.--Fell on a group of five Boches at 2300. I
brought them back, with drums beating, at 800 meters (one wire stay
cut, one escape pot broken). At the end of the boxing-round, 400
meters above Roye, I succeeded in getting behind a one-seated
machine of the group. My motor stopped; obliged to pump and let the
Boche go.
11.45.--Attacked a Fritz, let him go at 800 meters, my motor
spattered, but the Boche landed, head down, near Goyancourt. I only
count him as damaged.
At this instant, I see a Boche cannonaded at 2400, hence at 11.50 a
boxing round necessary with a little Rumpler armed with two
machine-guns. The pilot got a bullet in his lung; the passenger,
who fired at me, got one in his knee. The two reservoirs were hit,
and the whole machine took fire and tumbled down at Lignieres,
within our lines.
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