Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 403
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them but had no luck. There were only five of us and two of those were new pilots who were on their first patrol so I resisted the temptation to wade into the Huns & came home. It was a pity as with a few more I could have cleaned up that bunch properly.
On Monday we had another show & again I was put on top with my lot. There were broken clouds from about 2000 to 3000 feet but it was beautiful up above. This day I was the only one to get any scrapping as Huns were very few. I saw a two-seater on our side of the lines & chased him back in a wild dive from 15000 feet but only got within range to fire a short burst before he disappeared in a vertical dive through the clouds. I dont think I did him any damage but I'd like to know what happened below the clouds when he started to pull out of that dive! Later on I saw some machines low down on the Bosche side of the lines & went down to have a look at them. When I got to 5000 ft I saw they were British & then suddenly Ten Huns dived out of the sun past me & flattened out about a quarter of a mile ahead!! I nearly fell out of the machine with surprise when they appeared but apparently they either had not seen me or didn't want to fight, so I decided that it was up to me to start. I went after them followed by a few of my flight who however were a good quarter of a mile behind. I caught up the tail machine of the 10 Huns when about six miles over the lines and getting well on his tail shot him down utterly out of control. He went