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Show MADE GERMAN AIRMAN SORE That Opponent Did Not Adhere to Ordinary Or-dinary Rules of Fighting Seemed to Him Unfair. Set Strategy doesn't always work. But the German mind can't understand anyone's abandoning a fixed method, "The sorest man I have ever seen," sab! an American aviator, "was Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Melnkopf, the star Boche flyer, iv hen he "as nipped by Lieutenant Avery, Melnkopf was Baron Rtchtof- ifi's successor and the best liver that Herman) had left, "When Avery tackled bltn, he abandoned aban-doned all set principles of air strategy. simply sailed In and opened lire wit-out wit-out Indulging in preliminary maneuvers, maneuv-ers, lie brought his man down In about three seconds, and this was his iirst Boche battle. "When Melnkopf landed, he was purple with rage, and as far as I could make out his main complaint could be translated In this fashion: "What kind of (lying is this, anyhow?'" any-how?'" -Purls Stars and Stripes. |