These four Boches were in a quadrilateral, the
sides of which measured five kilometers, four and a half
kilometers, three kilometers and three kilometers. Those who were
in the middle need not have bothered themselves, but they were
completely distracted.
14.30.--Forced down a two-seated Albatros in flames.
Three Boches within our lines for my day's work.... Ouf! G.G.
Guynemer, who had been promoted lieutenant in February and was to be
made captain in March, treated this Lieutenant von Hausen humanely and
courteously as soon as he had landed. In all his mentions up to that
time Guynemer had been described as a "brilliant chasing pilot"; he was
now mentioned as an "incomparable chasing pilot."
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Early in April the Storks left Lorraine and went to make their nests on
a plateau on the left bank of the Aisne, back of Fismes. New events were
in preparation. After the German retreat to the Hindenburg line, the
French army in connection with the English army--which was to attack
Vimy cliffs (April 9-10, 1917)--was about to undertake that vast
offensive operation which, from Soissons to Auberive in Champagne, was
to roll like an ocean wave over the slopes of the Chemin des Dames, the
hills of Sapigneul and Brimont, and the Moronvillers mountain.
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