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2013
Days on the Wing
Posted by HW on 25 Apr 2013 /
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Published on April 25, 2013 Belgium’s top balloon-busting ace, Willy Coppens, would drop down from on high, his Hanriot HD-1 fighter plane swooping in toward his favorite target — a German artillery observation balloon, the type known as a “sausage” or “dragon”. Time and again, his deadly fire would hit the German balloons, igniting their [...]
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