In the Air
AIRMAN’S DARING FLIGHT. United Pbrsr Association. (Received 12.50 p.rn.) Ld|u|on, April 25. The airman at Ghent, as cabled on Friday, threw a the airshed from a height- of Owing to being fired at from a balloon and by many soldiers below; he got above the balloon, and threw a bomb, but missed. Then lie planed (down steeply under the balloon, so that the ballonists and soldiers dicj fire for fear of hitting each other. The airmen threw hand grenades until he was at a height of two hundred feet, when he dropped his last bomb on the airshed, causing a heavy explosion. He escaped. though the planer, were perforated with bullet holes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 96, 26 April 1915, Page 6
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115In the Air Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 96, 26 April 1915, Page 6
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