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day bombers' flight took place on our field before all our eyes and it was awful.
A D.H.4 came careening with the wind, made a sudden lurch into the wind, and crashed to pulp.  And in a second or two was one mass of flame.  God, how the sight affected us.  Not a thing to do and knowing what was going on.
The observer's body was thrown clear by some trick.  It disclosed the reason of the weird cause of the bus, for bullet holes told their story.  Struts were also pierced and after the ruins had cooled and a shapeless mass removed and more of the story unfolded we could all understand the fight that had been put up, somewhere up the Moselle or even to the Rhine.
Attacked far into Hunland they had