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Show AMERICAN TROOPS BREAK UP 2 HUN PATROL ATTACKS WASHINGTON, May 29. An addition to General Pershing's communique for yesterday, yes-terday, given out by the war department today, reports that (two German patrol attacks on May 26 and 27 were repulsed by American troops. Lieutenants Rickenbacker and Campbell American airmen, downed one- enemy machine ma-chine while fighting six; General Pershing cited an American sergeant, who, although wTounded, drove off an enemy patrol of four men. The communique follows: Section B: Yesterday morning three of our planes encountered four hostile planes flying at 3000 meters in the region of Mont Sec. In the fighting which ensued Lieutenant Douglas Campbell successfully attacked two of the German machines. Of these one lost both wings and fell. This was referred re-ferred to in yesterday's communique. In the same encounter one of our aviators was wounded, but succeeded in making a normal landing within our lines. Yesterday morning, in a sector taken over by our troops, an American Ameri-can sergeant encountered a German patrol of four men who had entered one of our trenches during the night. In fighting which ensued our sergeant, ser-geant, although receiving three wounds, succeeded in driving out the hostile patrol, which left grenades and wire cutters behind. In Lorraine, on the evening of May 26, a hostile patrol attempted to. penetrate pene-trate our lines. It was driven off with loss to the enemy of five killed. Of these one was brought into our lines. One of our men was wounded. This morning Lieutenant Rickenbacker Ricken-backer and Lieutenant Campbell attacked at-tacked a group of six enemy planes and brought one down out of control. |