British aircraft and kite balloons were to be used to observe the intermittent bombardment, which began in mid-June and the preliminary bombardment, which commenced on 24 June.
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The next day West was bounced by a group of Fokker DVII scouts, and West dropped to 200 feet altitude and flew through a network of kite balloons to escape.
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For observation over the rear slopes of the ridge, were concentrated in II Brigade RFC and eight balloons of II Kite Balloon Wing were placed behind the British front line.
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In addition, he has destroyed a kite balloon which was flying at a height of 500 ft .; engaging it at close range he drove it down in flames.
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After June 1918, she was based at Brest, France; and during that summer, usually sailed about ahead of convoys, towing aloft a kite balloon used for observation.
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The only United States naval kite balloon pilot casualty was an unsuccessful attempted return to a destroyer escorting an eastbound convoy through the Irish Sea on the stormy evening of 14 August 1918.
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On 10 September 1918, " Ophelia " was on patrol, with a Kite balloon deployed, when the observer in the balloon spotted the conning tower of a submarine.
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The doctor and memoirist Pedro Nava who is buried there, wrote in his book Kite balloon, One of the most beautiful and sentimental descriptions of the Caju cemetery and their graves.
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In 1916 she was badly damaged by fire and had to be refitted at paravanes and with her boat deck extended as a landing for kite balloons, she patrolled north of Shetland.
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Severely wounded and bleeding profusely, Barker force-landed inside Allied lines, his life being saved by the men of an RAF Kite Balloon Section who transported him to a field dressing station.
