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Transcribed version of Ray Brooks' log for 29
Sep 1918
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Date
and time: |
Sept
29 |
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Machine: |
#23
-- waiting for #20 replacement |
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Time: |
2
HRS |
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Height: |
3500 |
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Course: |
Belrain,
Grandpré, |
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Dun-sur-Ménse |
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Romagne,
Sarilly, |
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Belrain |
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(Tyndall,
Jones, Clapp
Little, Tucker, Agar) |
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Remarks: |
Bombing
Expedition. |
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Heading
toward Grandpré |
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when
I saw 13 Fokkers, |
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7
Spads and 6 EA. |
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coming
towards us. So we |
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climbed
above clouds, dropped |
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2 Cooper
---------> |
eggs
on Dun-sur-Mense, then |
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fragmentation |
chased
Fokkers. Fired at |
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25#s |
upper
ones in all 6 dove like |
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Hell
into clouds, reformed and |
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went
pell-mell into Germany. |
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Another
formation of 7 EA. |
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remained
well behind lines. |
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Jones
and I watched the |
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rear
and nearly landed in the |
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dark.
Beaucoup guns on |
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both
sides; from Argonne to |
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the
Moselle |
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Transcribed
by Jacq' Tucker 2000 |
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