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" ... could shoot, and I tried to stay under him, swerving as he did, and at the same time slowing down my motor to the limit, so as to let him get ahead of me enough to allow me to start shooting again. The Boche and I were at this time about twenty yards... "
The Way of the Eagle - Page 185
by Charles John Biddle - 1919 - 297 pages
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The Lafayette Flying Corps, Volume 2

James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, Edgar G. Hamilton - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 438 pages
...let him get ahead of me enough to allow me to start shooting again. The Boche and I were at this time about twenty yards apart, and if he had only had a...quickly as you could snap-shoot with a pistol, or with a shotgun at a quail in the bush, for instance. In trying to slow down as much as possible I had almost...
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The Lafayette Flying Corps, Volume 2

James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, Edgar G. Hamilton - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 442 pages
...let him get ahead of me enough to allow me to start shooting again. The Boche and I were at this time about twenty yards apart, and if he had only had a...quickly as you could snap-shoot with a pistol, or with a shotgun at a quail in the bush, for instance. In trying to slow down as much as possible I had almost...
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European Skyways: The Story of a Tour of Europe by Airplane

Lowell Thomas - Aeronautics - 1927 - 646 pages
...sufficient for the observer, who proceeded to do the quickest and most accurate bit of shooting 122 that I have yet run up against. As a rule, in such...quickly as you could snap-shoot with a pistol, or with a shotgun at a quail in the bush, for instance. In trying to slow down as much as possible I had almost...
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European Skyways: The Story of a Tour of Europe by Airplane

Lowell Thomas - Aeronautics - 1928 - 456 pages
...let him get ahead of me enough to allow me to start shooting again. The Boche and I were at this time about twenty yards apart, and if he had only had a...quickly as you could snap-shoot with a pistol, or with a shotgun at a quail in the bush, for instance. In trying to slow down as much as possible I had almost...
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U.S. Air Services, Volumes 1-2

Aeronautics - 1919 - 518 pages
...get Biddle out from under him so that the machine gunner could shoot. When about 20 yards away Biddle saw a black-helmeted head appear over the edge of the Hun machine. The man fired almost at the same instant, and, as quickly as one could snap a shotgun at a covey of...
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