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second of the two and as he made a steep left dive on the descending Hun I did likewise on the first of the two who by this time was under my plane.
I opened fire at 3 or 4 hundred meters and kept my tracers and bullets plowing his wings as I cam right down on him. At a point when I was about to redress the black crossed [[strikethrough]] Fokker [[/strikethrough]] Phaltz went into a spin.
I leveled off with a stoppage occupying my attention - and the engine refused to pick up! I fixed the stoppage of the gun and monkeyed with the throttle until the backfiring [[scared?]] me [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] when clatter, clatter, clatter and over my left