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Downed a two-seater, which lost a wing as it fell and was smashed on the trees 1200 meters NNE. of Corbeny. Another two-seater downed, in flames, above Juvincourt. With Captain Auger, forced another two-seater to dive down to 600 meters, one kilometer from our lines. Downed a D.F.W. in flames above Courlandon. Downed a two-seater in flames between Guignicourt and Condé-sur-Suippes.
In fact, the news was already spreading like wildfire, as news has the mysterious capacity for doing. No, it was not simply one airplane he had set ablaze; it was two, one above Corbeny, the other above Juvincourt. And people had hardly realized the wonderful fact before the third machine was seen falling in flames near Fismes.
The possession of Craonne gave the French command of an open road through the valley of Miette where a few weeks before they had captured the German second line south of Juvincourt. They could now, advancing through this corridor, outflank the entire German position depending on Laon as its center.
Nivelle swept forward, carrying all of the first line of German positions between Soissons and Craonne. They also took the second line positions, south of Juvincourt, east of Craonne, reached the outskirts of Bermericourt, and advanced up the Aisne canal at Loivre and Courcy. During these operations the French captured 10,000 Germans and a vast amount of war material.
To the south of Juvincourt they succeeded in penetrating the German second-line positions and held on. Every effort made by the Germans during the day failed, the French artillery literally tearing their ranks to pieces. Further advances were made by the French to the banks of the Aisne Canal at the villages of Courcy and Loivre.
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