AIRMAN IN A BARRAGE.
What an airman feels like in a barrage is in some measure indicated in a letter just seen by "A Londoner" and written by Flight-Lieutenant Stanley Eosevear, who was recently gazetted as having received the Distinguished Service Cross for destroying hostile machines and attacking and scattering parties of enemy infantry. "I could not begin to explain what an awful hell a barrage is," Lieutenant Eosevear's letter runs, "At times -I could not hear my- own engine or my machine-gun". Several times I distinctly saw large shells zipp past my machine. We were heartily congratulated by the general for our great help in making the push a success, but we paid for it in pilots missing."
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Taihape Daily Times, 9 February 1918, Page 5
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119AIRMAN IN A BARRAGE. Taihape Daily Times, 9 February 1918, Page 5
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