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Show 0. S. FLIERS IN A HOT FIGHT Force Enemy Plane Down Inside In-side Own Lines Artillery Finishes Job. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 5.(By the Associated Press ) An American lieutenant and another pilot engaged a German biplane bi-plane over the lin. is northwest of Toul this morning and forced the enemy plane down inside its own lines after a hot fight. After the two American pilots left the scene of the landing several hundred hun-dred of the enemy, men and officers, gathered around where the machine had settled down and the American artillery dropped many shells on the spot, wrecking the machine and inflicting in-flicting some casualties. The air battle started at an altitude of 5000 meters, the American pilot attacking at-tacking first from under the tail. When one of the Americans got on top, the German observer rut loose with a stream of bullets two of which penetrated the tail and a third entered the fusilage and exploded The pieces spattered in all directions, but the American airmen continued fighting and forced the Boche to earth. That the bullet was of the explosive type is said to be absolutely certain. Five other air battles were fought, but. without result. |