Aside from the savage attacks and counterattacks by Infantry throughout this region and an artillery activity thus far unsurpassed anywhere, the battle was just as tough in the air as on the earth. A fleet of 18-wide-winged bombers, like hawks keeping hostile machines at a distance, patrols guarded the British side of the line, sailing up and down, swerving and turning, ready for attack or defense, while air sentinels kept watch about the observation balloons lest out of the cloud-puffs should dart a destroyer-type German plane and put the sausage down, then, as the Prussian airmen attempted to force their way over to the English side to give their artillery the range on batteries and troops, fierce fighting machines developed in which were the German infantry suddenly appeared in the open, coming from behind Vert Wood southeast of Monch and the enemy's artillery increased their shellfire on this hill-top town until it was buried. Shrapnel filled the air with their twin puffs of smoke, one white puff and one black, and, lest the British should throw in their reserves, a barrage of shells.

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