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Updated: June 3, 2025
A letter to his father described the combat in his own brief and direct manner, without a superfluous word: "Combat with two Fokkers. The first, trapped, and his passenger killed, dived upon me without having seen me. Then combat with the second Fokker, a one-seated machine shooting through the propeller, as rapid and easily handled as mine.
The great German airships called Zeppelins took their name from the German Count Zeppelin, who invented them; and the splendid French airships called Fokkers also take their name from their inventor, and so does the Gotha name of ill-fame. The man who first discovered gunpowder is forgotten, but many of the powerful guns which are used in modern warfare are called after their inventors.
One glances up to see if there is another machine higher than one's own. Low and far within the German lines are several enemy planes, a dull white in appearance, resembling sand flies against the mottled earth. High above them one glimpses the mosquito-like forms of two Fokkers. Away off to one side white shrapnel puffs are vaguely visible, perhaps directed against a German crossing the lines.
"Look! Look! See our man engage those two!" shouted Roger. They all saw what he meant. One intrepid American airman had headed for two Fokkers which were flying directly toward him, close together.
All the time a bigger flock of Fokkers were in the sun above us and they came down like 'wolves on the fold. Fellow, you had your little faults. Don't be too hard on Siddons." "Cutting formation to get in a fight and cutting to go joy-riding are two different things. If it were anyone else but Siddons I'd ask Cowan to ground him." "You like him?" "Emphatically, NO! And he knows it.
For a time our flying-men had gone out on old-fashioned "buses" primitive machines which were an easy prey to the fast-flying Fokkers who waited for them behind a screen of cloud and then "stooped" on them like hawks sure of their prey.
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