I try to be fair, but I just can't buy Bishop's story. There are too many holes in it for me, nothing about the raid sounds true! The only reason I can think of for the British letting such a cock and bull story pass is;
The RFC had just gone through a very bad time,
Bloody April, Muderous May etc. It needed soething to raise the spirits of the badly shot up squadrons. Bishop's "raid" would show the rest of the RFC that the offensive missions that they hated were beating down the evil Hun.
Bishop had show the other lads how it was done!
As my father use to say. "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull shit.' Bishop was full of it.
Richard
quote of Capt Lee in refernce to Bishop. "How does he do it?"