4 AUGUST 1917, Page 1
Our aeroplanes played a great part in the victory. For
several days beforehand they had been extremely active behind the enemy's lines. On Friday and Saturday of last week they destroyed thirty- one enemy aeroplanes and two balloons, and drove down thirty aeroplanes, losing in all sixteen of their own machines. During the battle they braved a heavy rainstorm and kept in touch with the advancing infantry, They destroyed six of the few German machines which attempted to fly, and they attacked the enemy's troops with bombs and machine-gun fire. Despite the risks that they ran, all our aeroplanes returned safely save three.
