GERMAN AEROPLANE'S DARING ESCAPE IN A CLOUD.
"We were chasing him two of us," said a French flying officer the other day, describing a Taube hunt. "Up and up on him we came. The gunner , in the leading aeroplane of bur two j was just, getting ready to open fire, when—bang into the cloud went the I German. Disappeared utterly. SwalI lowed up like a pill. I "'All right,' we thought, 'he's got to come out some time.' So we beban making great circles round the ' cloud. We went on waiting. I had begun to wonder if the aeroplane hadn't been dissolved inside, when suddenly my gunner by my side simply screamed with rage. Out of the | cloud, below us, falling head downwards, shot the German plane for a thousand feet, and then, righting it- ' self, went off at 100 miles an hour for the German lines. He had us fairjv." /
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 7
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151GERMAN AEROPLANE'S DARING ESCAPE IN A CLOUD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 12, 13 September 1915, Page 7
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