Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 17
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in progress. Our anti-air-craft guns are barking furiously from the ground and our machine guns are gabbling. Although this is all happening some distance away the fuss and fury of the noise is clearly audible. Diamond-like flickers of flame appear in the sky round the bird-like plane. We know this to be the bursting of our shrapnel White flecks of cloud no larger than snow balls come into existence in the blue These mark exactly where our shells have exploded. Still the enemy plane soars serenely and defies all that is hurled at it from the earth.
Suddenly it darts away and swoops like a hawk down towards another balloon and in an instant the lumbering shape is in flames. In the full light of day that burning mass is bleached to a transparent brilliance that has the beauty