About 4:45 seven of our machines, of which I had charge, attacked some English biplanes west of P.
I attacked one and wounded the observer, so he was unable to fire at me. At the second attack the machine started to smoke. Both pilot and observer seemed dead. It fell into the second line English trenches and burned up. As I was attacked by a Vickers machine after going two or three hundred meters, I did not see this. According to the report of Group A., at A. o. K. 1., a B.-E. machine, attacked by one of our one-man machines, had fallen. This must have been mine.
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... Mother does not need to worry about me; things are not so terrible as she pictures them. She just needs to think of all the experience I have had at this work, not to mention our advantage in knowledge of how to fly and shoot.
Telegram from the front.[B]
“October 28, 1916, 7:30 in the evening.
“Prepare parents: Oswald mortally injured to-day over German lines.
“Wilhelm.”