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The Bombardment of Reims

June, 1916

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1 Taube at dawn; bombardment 6:30 to 9 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 10 to 11 A. M., 8 shells; again 3:30 to 4 P. M., 15 shells; again 10 P. M., 3 shells, 1 wounded.

2 Bombardment 6 to 7:30 A. M., 25 shells; renewed 11 A. M.; again 3 P. M.

3 Bombardment 6 to 7 P. M., 100 shells; renewed 9 to 10 P. M., 11 shells.

4 Bombardment 8:30 to 9 P. M.

5 Bombardment 9:30 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 3 P. M., 5 shells.

6 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 20 shells; renewed 5 P. M., 3 shells.

7 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 12 shells; renewed at noon, 3 shells; again 8 P. M., 4 shells on vacant land.

8 1 shell 9 A. M.; 1 shell 5 P. M.

9 Bombardment 8 to 9 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, 8 shells; again 10 P. M.

10 Bombardment 7:30 to 9 A. M., 6 shells.

11 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M.

12 Calm.

13 1 shell; artillery on front.

14 Some shells in afternoon.

15 Calm.

16 Calm.

17 Taube 5 A. M.; bombardment 8:43 to 11 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 1 to 1:30 P. M., 3 shells; French artillery 4 P. M.

18 No shells.

19 Bombardment 9 to 11 A. M. on faubourgs; aerial combat in afternoon, 4 shells fell into Reims.

20 Aerial fire 6:30 P. M.; artillery on front at night.

21 Anti-aerial shell fell back 6:15 A. M.

22 Artillery on front; bombardment 3 to 4 P. M., 24 shells; aerial shell fell back 6:30 P. M.

23 Bombardment 9:30 to 10 P. M., 41 shells.

24 Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M., 50 shells.

25 French artillery 4 P. M., no response.

26 Calm.

27 French artillery, no response.

28 Bombardment 2 to 2:30 P. M., 5 shells; French artillery at night.

29 Bombardment 9:30 to 11:15 A. M., 45 shells; renewed 12 to 1:30 P. M., 18 shells, 1 killed; again 3:30 to 5 P. M., 34 shells.

30 Bombardment 9:30 to 10 A. M., 10 shells; renewed 2:20 to 2:45 P. M., 15 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded; again 4 to 5 P. M., 6 shells, 3 killed, 2 wounded; French artillery at night.

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