LOOP DEFEATS ENEMY.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 3

LOOP DEFEATS ENEMY.

AIRMAN’S TRIPLE VICTORY

Wonderful stories of the bravery ot our flying men at the front were related by “Boyd Cable” (Captain Ewart) at the Overseas Club recently. One was that of a pilot who was attacked by three enemy machines and, looping the loop, fired his gun, bringing down one of the machines. The two other Germans, realising what he was doing, manoeuvred and opened fire as he came down. The pilot countered this by “side-slipping’' for 200 ft, with the result that his adversaries overshot him. He fired and brought down a second machine. By this time other British machines came up, and the remaining German thought it was time to get out of it. He dived, but the plucky British pilot dived after him. The enemy machine was brought down. j The pilot estimated that the whom of this fight took less than a minute. “You don’t get time to think,” were the words of one young pilot. “If you stop to think you are dead.” Fighting was a young man’s game.