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Following the book : PER ARDUA The Rise of British Airpower 1911-1939.
On 10th August 1914, the cruisers Goeben and Breslau hotly persued by the sqaudron of Admiral Troubidge sought refuge in the Dardannels.(pge 58)
From Jyly 1917 onwards bombing raids were also undertaken by a SINGLE Handley Page which had flon 2,000 miles from England in order to do so.On 9th July it attacked the battle-cruiser Goeben at anchor into the harbour of Constantinople, but its 112lb bombs, though several hit her, did little damage.The Turkish War Office and other targets were aldo bombed an d the H-P returned safely.
It carried out two other long distance raids, one o 6th August on warehouses and shipping at Paderma,
on the Sea of Marmara, and another on the 2nd September on Adrianople.
About 30th September 1917:
....a fight on 30th September of that year is memorable for the feat performed by Flight Lieutenant J.W. ALCOCK, afterwards to be the first man to cross the Atlantic....
He forced down into the sea a German single-seater
fighter, himself flying OFFICIALLY a Sopwitch Camel
though in point of fact it had been built to his own design round a BENZ engine taken from a German twin-engined bomber brought down six motnhs earlier in Macedonia.
To make it further short : Alcock was taking a bath when the alarm sounded...that machine was just tested, the motors running warm, and he jumped in and took off! It was 20 miles/h faster than any other British machine! The German he forced down at sea was a named Muller...
BRV
Jempie
.....the same day Alcock took the Handley page on his last flight
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