Sixty Squadron RAF: A History of the Squadron from Its Formation (Vintage Aviation Series) by A.J.L. Scott

Author:A.J.L. Scott [Scott, A.J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781612003856
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2016-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

“60 SQUADRON R.F.C.,

“B.E.F., FRANCE.

“June 1917.

“It is funny hearing the war again after being on leave so long. We had quite a good crossing, although I had a deuce of a time getting on to the boat at Folkestone. The silly ass of a porter had carted all my baggage on board, including the leave warrant, which was in my British-warm pocket. I had to persuade the A.M.L.O.2 I wasn’t a Hun spy, and, after a long discussion, he let me on.

“The Major seemed pleased to have me back, and they all had great stories to tell about our ‘stunt merchant,’1who had been putting up a jolly good show by bringing down umpteen2Huns. His star turn was the shooting up of an aerodrome. He started off at dawn by himself and arrived over the aerodrome he had planned to attack. Finding that there was nothing doing here, he pushed off to look for trouble elsewhere. Suddenly he saw the hangars of another aerodrome. He attacked these with much gusto, and when the Huns came up to do him down, he crashed two of them and drove another into the trees. He also managed to flatten out a large number of mechanics and put pukka wind up the rest. You can imagine how the fat old Huns ran, as nothing like this had ever happened to them before. I believe his name has been put in for something big in the decoration line.

“It has been arranged that we get one day off in every three, which gives us a bit of spare time. We had ours off to-day. Four of us aviated over to Paris-Plage, near Etaples, this afternoon and tested our grids by firing into the sea. Afterwards we landed opposite the Hôtel Continental and left our machines there under a guard. We wandered about the village for a bit, and then started for home, stunting3 about to amuse the populace, which had collected on the front to see us off. We all got home safely just as it was getting dark.”

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