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Liberty machines (DH-4's) which, with their criminally constructed fuel tanks, offered so easy a target to the Incendiary bullets of the enemy that their unfortunate pilots called this boasted achievement of our Aviation Department their

Fighting the Flying Circus - Page 337
by Eddie Rickenbacker - 1919 - 371 pages
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War Expenditures: Aviation. 3 v

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Dept - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 992 pages

...boasted achievement of our Aviation Department their "flaming coffins." During that one brief (light over Grand Pre I saw three of these crude machines..."flaming coffin" dying this frightful and needless death. Again, on the same page [reading]: The second combat occurred just a few minutes later. The last of...

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War Expenditures: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Expenditures in ...

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department - World War, 1914-1918 - 1921 - 784 pages

...boasted achievement of our Aviation Department their " flamIng coffins." During that one brief flight over Grand Pre I saw three of these crude machines...In flames, an American pilot and an American gunner ID each " flaming coffin," dying this frightful and needless death. Equally vivid is the following...

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Amend the Constitution with Respect to Declarations of War. Hearings ...

United States U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee onthe judiciary - 1934 - 42 pages

...unfortunate pilots called them " flaming coffins." During that one brief flight over Grand Pre Isaio I saw three of these crude machines go down in flames,...flaming coffin dying this frightful and needless death." (P. 10 of the report.) Lt. RE Lee Murphy — a fighting name — American flyer trained with Royal...

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