“I felt like a king, loaded with my bombs… I flew over Saint Privat quite low, so that I could see all the houses, and if I dropped my bombs there, I should have been able to to destroy half the village…”
The cocksure words from a German aviator are quoted above as they appeared in a 1916 issue of the Vienna newspaperArbeiter Zeitung. The pilot was recalling his flight over a French Village in the Verdun sector, much of it reduced to rubble.
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ww1 letter from German pilotww1 letter from German aviatorPOWER IN MILITARY AVIATIONVerdun air supportair support destruction of French towns around Verdun 1916ARBEITER ZEITUNG 1916French villages near VERDUN bombedGerman air raids Verdun 1916letters from WW1 German pilots
