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This morning I witnessed a very thrilling air fight. A German plane came over our lines pretty high & though he escaped the fire of anti aircraft & made a terrific dive at one of our observation baloons, he dropped two bombs but did not succeed in hitting. He returned to the attack three times & at last succeeded in dropping a bomb on it then a flame rose & presently this huge thing sixty by seventy feet long was a great flame falling earthward. The men escaped by jumping out with parachutes. Our planes attacked but the German was a big battle plane & he got away. One of our planes was above him & it dropped at him like a stone & fired its machine gun, as it did, one of his which was guarding him pounced down upon ours then a most thrilling thing occurred. Our machine dropped almost vertically for some hundreds of feet, skimmed low & gradually rose again. I thought they