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this way they are almost always able to menace our airmen from several sides at once.
Just as they did at the beginning of the Somme, the English airmen who fly lowest showed
an immense insolence; they came down to 200 metres or even less from the ground, and
shot at our troops with their machine guns, which are specially adapted to this purpose.
We on the other hand, fight them from the ground with rifle and machine gun."
INVERNESS COPSE AND MENIN ROAD BEFORE THE THIRD BATTLE.
On July 31, 1917, opened the third battle of Ypres, which continued until November
10. There was so much that was spectacular in aerial warfare, that it is hard to describe
the various fights which took place during the long summer evenings over the Ypres
