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salient. In these fights, witnessed daily by scores of infantrymen, it must have been
extremely difficult to distinguish friend from foe about twenty machines would all be
mixed up together in groups, while the rattle of machine guns came as a strange contrast
to the roar of engines. Suddenly a speck would start to fall, a trickle of flame perhaps
behind it, and then grow larger and larger, until the machine looked like a ball of fire,
INVERNESS COPSE AFTBR THE THIRD BATTLE.
hurtling earthward with ever increasing momentum, to finally crash 10,000 feetjbelow
amid a shower of sparks and final large puff of smoke.
The sympathy between pilot and observer was one of the outstanding features of the
the spirit of the air. Two incidents illustrating this are here given. On August 11, 1917,
