"We have great numbers of machines and we are getting more every day but we shall always have to use them where they can most harm the enemy, and don't forget the guns with Which this country is well provided nor our balloon barrage which caught a couple of raiders the other night. who was recently reported, missing, Soden's flight was ordered France at short notice, and during the following two days' he acted as leader in' many combats against the He personally shot down five Ger= man aircraft, "possibly two more, while his flight destroyed a further seven, 'On' one occasion Soden attacked singlehanded between 50. and 60 enemy fighters, destroying one of them.
On. another occasion, while an aerodrome was being heavily bombed, Soden jumped into a fighter alreratt, and despite the presence of delayed action bombs and the airfield being. covered with smoke, took off and at-lacked a greatly superior force.
Soden was a Londoner and only 231 years of age—Reuter. ie-guns firing from forward positions,
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