Item 03: Charles Britton war diary, 8 April-14 August 1918 - Page 85
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[Page 85]
Mon 17th June 1918
In line V.B.
Came off duty 9 am. Weather fine. Our art very active through early part of day. Enemy shelling heavily at times. A good deal of bombing through the night. At 4 am an enemy baloon up on our front & 7 more along line to the north. Our fighting planes over the enemy's lines at 4-30 am under heavy AA & MG fire, which does not appear to worry them much. At 10 am one of our planes brought down by M.G. fire in enemy lines, the pilot & observer leaping frorm the machine as it was crashing to the earth, both were evidently killed in the fall.
At 12-30 pm a big air fight in progress over our post, 2 enemy planes brought down & 1 of ours forced to land. Enemy machines then broke off the fight & fled to their own lines, with