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Page 56 - Ferme Carnot.' According to the report, the French machine went to the assistance of an English one that was being attacked by a Boche, and at the same time was itself attacked from the rear by two other Boches. The French machine was nettement descendu, as they say, and took a sheer fall of over 6000 feet, until it crashed into the ground. "I had hoped against hope that there might be some mistake; that the machine was merely forced to land, or perhaps that it was not Oliver's machine at all, or...
Page 56 - Oliver and I were not scheduled to fly until the afternoon, but as we were both anxious to get all the practice possible, we went to the field in the morning in the hope that they might need an extra man. A patrol was just going out, and being short one man they asked Oliver to fill up. I saw him off and was a little disappointed that he had gotten the job instead of myself, as he had already had an hour or two more over the lines than I. He went out with three Frenchmen and never came back. They...
Page 58 - I have a large scale map showing the spot where he fell; it will of course always be impossible to find out where he is buried. I wish you could have known Oliver Chadwick as I am sure he would have appealed to you as he did to me. He was the kind of man that it takes generations to make and then you only get them once in a thousand tunes.
Page 75 - I have already written you, he was small and of a frail appearance. I believe his health was very far from good and the high altitudes sometimes made him so sick he had to come down. He would fly for a week and then go away for a rest, as he was not strong enough to stand any more. In the course of several hundred fights he had been shot down seven times and twice wounded. To keep at it under such circumstances and after all he had gone through, a man's heart has to be in the right place and no mistake....
Page 58 - ... he fell. It will, of course, always be impossible to find out where he is buried. I wish you could have known Oliver Chadwick, as I am sure he would have appealed to you as he did to me. He was the kind of a man that it takes generations to make and then you only get them once in a thousand times. A man with a great deal of brains, he was also a very hard worker and had learned much about aviation and had made himself the best pilot I have ever seen for one of his experience. He was one of the...
Page 184 - ... this time to get to good close range. I did, and ended up fifty yards directly behind 'his tail and slightly below; but I made one bad mistake, a real beginner's trick, which was the cause of all my troubles. Evidently I was not quite far enough below him, and I had not fired more than four or five shots when I got caught in the back draught from his propeller, which joggled my machine about so that anything approaching accurate shooting became an impossibility. I saw one bullet go three feet...
Page 58 - ... Chadwick, as I am sure he would have appealed to you as he did to me. He was the kind of a man that it takes generations to make and then you only get them once in a thousand times. A man with a great deal of brains, he was also a very hard worker and had learned much about aviation and had made himself the best pilot I have ever seen for one of his experience. He was one of the very few I have met over here who came over long before America entered the war, simply because he felt it was his...
Page 291 - ... evacuation of Belgium and France. These are the deeds of the New German popular government. Can these be called mere words, or bluff, or propaganda? Who is to blame, if an armistice is not called now f Who is to blame if daily, thousands of brave soldiers needlessly have to shed their blood and die?
Page 183 - ... believe that it was a new type of German armored plane which they call "Junkers" and which I have read about in the aviation reports. They are built especially for this low infantry liaison work and are heavily armored about the fuselage to protect them from fire from the ground. In consequence of their great weight, they cannot go very high and are extremely slow. This fellow must have been a squadron leader or something, for he had four big streamers attached to his wings, one on the top and...
Page 292 - German government has1 restricted the U-boat War. No passengers .steamers not carrying troops or war material will be attacked In future! •^ The new German government has declared that it will withdraw all Oerman troops b.ack over the German frontier. f) — The new German government ha-, asked the Allied