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This is from Major W.L.B. Rees in a report in 1917, Rees later won the VC;
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o As a rule it does not pay to follow a machine below 3000 feet. At that height the machine guns from the ground become dangerous, and if the enemy machine is not disabled before that it will probably not be disabled at all.
o It is dangerous to cross the trenches at heights below 2000 ft.
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Ree's report stresses several times the importance of disabling the enemy aircraft in the first attack. He has a set of bullet like points, from which the above two are from, the first four bullet points are;
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o Open fire before the enemy
o Open fire at the shortest possible range
o Open fire under the most favourable conditions
o Try to disable the enemy at once
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His final bullet point is; " Do not get put out when you find that your pet theory does not work" :)
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