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guidance and walked all around in front of Flirey trying to get back to my mates. I finally located them and as we were about to start back we were arrested by the nervy antics of a lone Hun aviator. Overhead [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] ^[[was]] a cloudbank ^[[above which]] the Bosche sneaked over our lines and when in back of the balloon we had passed earlier ^[[and which I had used as my guide]] the mite dived and cut loose with his machine guns. Immediately our A.A's and machine answered and down came the balloon before the observer even jumped. Mr. Bosche did a few slips and cooly went on his way down the