Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 16
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to get rid of such annoyances.
The airman entrusted with the task has approached near enough to pepper one of the balloons with incendiary bullets and he has scored a win. The observers have long since escaped to mother earth by parachute and now the consumed baloon is disappearing behind a rise in the land scape, and a twirl of smoke up rises as it falls.
The plane can be seen no bigger than a bird high up in the blue. One of the on lookers remarks that no plane but that simple scourge sent forth by of the enemy is visible as yet, which is the truth. Angry words are muttered resenting the blunder that there seems to be in not having forces in the air to give battle to the bloody German who has just scored so well against us. But what battle can be given is already