Letters to Mrs R. H. Caldwell, from her son Robert Douglas Caldwell and other soldiers, 1917-1919 - Page 235

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birds in the air. I have seen as many as 40 up at once & we can only see one little part of the front. One one day I saw 6 planes brought down, mostly Germans, two German planes were brought down just by us within about a ¼ of hour came down in flames, they would be sailing along having a good look at the country when all of a sudden one of our planes would come along, make a dive at him & put a burst of machine gun bullets into him, a little smoke would come from Fritz then

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