“A Boche "saucisse" broke loose this morning and came right over our camp. The anti-Zepp battery beside us failed to hit it, but a plane went up and set it on fire, and it fell, a mass of flames, not more than a couple of miles away.”
April 1917 - American ambulance driver’s diary, during the 2nd battle of the Chemin des Dames, Aisne, France. From Poilu to Yank.












