Helmute von Hammer Hauptmann, Jasta 4, JG 1 8 Victory's Marcke , France.
Oct 5, 1917.
I awoke to see a familiar face and started to remember How I got here. We were on Escort for 2 Rumplers on a Photo mapping of the lines in Heavy cloud cover. Ambush, 5 or 6 Camels hit us just about all at one time. I took fire then kicked into a port turn when a Camel dropped on my tail. Taking hits I flicked over in a spin, but his bullets caught me in the lower leg. Spinning down over one of our forward Airfields, I was able to level out as our Flack opened up and chased the Englishman away. As I was pulled out of the machine I spotted over 18 holes. I later heard that we Lost Lt. Kinner's a/c for Zero claims. The doc said I wold be down for 9 days.
