SEAPLANE FIGHT
BRITISH MACHINE ROUTS THREE GERMANS. Stirring details of an notion bet'.v«on one of the British seaplanes and five flnemy maclines in the North .Sea were recently published. The seaplane wan mie of hvo. .which had left the P.ast Const base 'oil patrol duty. While the other machine was flying iome distance ahead five enemy seaplanes, two of which were twin-seatcrs and three single-seators, dived out of the clouds at our rearmost machine. The three single-seaters closed in behind the tail of the seaplane and opened fire at between £00 and 300 yards, but the British machine kept up a running fight, nnd by steering a. zig-zag course enabled the engineer nnd wireless operator to bring the rear i»iiiis to bear. The engineer succeeded in hitting ono single-seater, causing it to sidesiip and crash into the water. The enemy twoseaters circled round the crashed machines, while the remaining two singleseaters kepi up the fight for another five minutes. a ni! then turned back. The Distinguished Service Medal bas been awarded to th'-. gunner.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 223, 8 June 1918, Page 8
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174SEAPLANE FIGHT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 223, 8 June 1918, Page 8
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