The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . single-seater British machine at a greatheight. The enemy pilot was shot through the heart andthe observer through the body. The German machinecrashed to the earth, with the engine full on, from a heightof 14,000 feet. One of the British was at-tacked by eight hostile aeroplanes, one of which was broughtdown. Two British machines were damaged, but all re-turned to their base. Events like these, notable at the 268 AIRPLANES AND THE LAST
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . single-seater British machine at a greatheight. The enemy pilot was shot through the heart andthe observer through the body. The German machinecrashed to the earth, with the engine full on, from a heightof 14,000 feet. One of the British was at-tacked by eight hostile aeroplanes, one of which was broughtdown. Two British machines were damaged, but all re-turned to their base. Events like these, notable at the 268 AIRPLANES AND THE LAST ZEPPBLLXS time, seemed small afterward in the light of airship workon the Western Front in 1918. On ]March 20 fifty Allied airplanes*-attacked the Germansubmarine base at Zeebrugge, Belgium, and works atHoultade. For two days air-battles constituted the greatestactivity seen on the Western Front. In one raid againstGerman towns in upper Alsace, two sky-fieets clashed in oneof the most spectacular battles of the war. Four Frenchairplanes and three German were brought down. The raid,in which a squadron of twenty-three French craft invaded. EELKilOCS SERVICES AT THE FKONTA chaplain for a pulpit has made use of the body of an aeroplane upper Alsace and grappled with almost an equal number ofGerman Taubes, furnished a thrilling spectacle. Two of thethree German machines brought to earth were masses offlames as they crumpled up. The font French planes thatwere brought down were wrecked. Possibly twenty personswere killed, including seven civilians, and many more thanthat number were The raid -was directed for thegreater part against Miilhausen, where seven were killed andthirteen hurt, and against Habsheim, just east, where onesoldier was slain. A total of seventy-two shells were of the fighters were killed when their machines 269 ON THE WESTERN FRONT crashed to earth. Another raid, made by the French aboutthe same time, did heavy damage at Metz, Chateau Salin
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