No fighting - just flying! And feeling like Ikarus...
Jasta 2, Bertincourt, 10. September 1916
Fw. Harms
Today's patrol over Masny airfield was without any enemy contact. We had
sighted some FE2 pushers underway, but didn't attack them, cause we had
strict orders to appear over Masny. The field had been attacked by Entente
bombers twice in the last days.
The joy of flying - even in a weather like this, threatening to bring a thunder
storm - was wonderful!
Gottschalk, Grolmann, von Kranz and Boddien kicked over the traces by flying
extremely low over our tents. Hauptmann Boelke ticked them off, that we
could hear it all over the field. If he never did anything like that?