“In a quarter of an hour after the first shot I hit an R.E. two-seater at exactly the same spot at an altitude of about 700 metres. I dived behind it and shot it up at close range with about 100 shots. At first the Englishman defended himself with an observer machine gun. The aeroplane burned in the air until it hit the ground. Half an hour later, the aircraft was still burning on the ground.”