Source: File: RumplerTaubeInFlight.jpg,
2014. Etrich Taube. [online] (updated July 30 2014) Available at: <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrich_Taube>
Accessed: 23 November 2014].
Some travellers,
From Soissons,
Arriving in Paris,
Conveyed a tale
To the French paper,
Petit Parisien.
That on Saturday morning,
A German Taube
Type aeroplane,
Was seen at 10 a.m.
Flying above Soissons -
With intentions of seeking
Out some French batteries.
The Taube,
Also called ‘The Dove,’
Was a stable winged,
Pre war built craft -
Mostly employed
As a spotter plane.
Above 400 metres,
Their translucent form,
Made them hard to see.
Modelled, not on a bird,
But a simple pumpkin seed,
That floats in gentle spiral -
The type built of a single wing,
With edges angled back.
A nearby British flyer
Zoomed into the attack.
Diving on the Taube
Firing at its motor -
Flaying it with shrapnel.
By a volplane manoeuvre,
The enemy pilot attempted,
To reach his own lin
When a 75 mm shell,
Intercepted its course -
The craft crashed at Soissons.
At the site,
Of the burning Taube,
Was found inside
Two officers,
And a mechanic,
Terribly burnt to death.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1914. Aeroplane
Brought Down. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 23 Nov. p.4. Col.2. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11241603/Daily-Telegraph-November-23-1914.html
[Accessed: 23 November 2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 23 November 2014).
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