anyone that says Fritz is short of ammunition is mad, for he has slung enough round us to clean up battallions. Covered up & altogether a hot trip. I am sorry for the patient I grab four big husky Fritzys & make them give us a hand. Dead men & horses all over the place. as we go round by Souchez dump, we get some breakfast from Joe & go back & find the drive is going fine. Fritz is going back fine, our machine gun companies are brought up & we have him on the run. The price we are paying is large. but the gain is also large. we carry out eight patients out by 8 PM. & to do so, we are working very hard, the mud is deep & after the first we go overland by the side of Araby trench. Joe is very good to us & keeps hot tea & sandwiches for us, the Y.M.C.A is giving us anything we will carry away. Hembroff gets Killed on the Sunday too I see them carried in & wait outside a couple of minutes to hear the last of him. Luff’s squad
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
Bloody April in the air
While ground forces advance, the air war over Arras is devastating for the Royal Flying Corps. German fighter squadrons (including Manfred von Richthofen's Jasta 11) dominate the skies. The RFC loses aircraft at a rate of nearly 10 per day. British aircrews are often sent into combat with minimal training, sometimes fewer than 20 hours of flight time. The average life expectancy for a new RFC pilot arriving at the front is measured in weeks.
