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THREE FAMOUS ACES
ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN
KNIGHTS OF THE AIR
By Capt. N. MacMillan, M.C., A.F.C.
VALOUR in the air was not tho who fought in the Great War. Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, America all pro- duced men who rose to fame,
In almost every case these chal- longing and successful fighting pilots flew single-seater aero- planes. In their cockpits, they rodo to war alone (as did the knights of old upon their char- gers) to single out their adver- sarles, engage in mortal combat, and fight the swiflest-paced duels the world has ever known.
It is ever invidious to create distinctions. And if, in this brief article, to leave untold the tale of the magic worth of Barker, Me- Cudden, Mannock, Schaefer, Voss, Boricke, Fonk, and opens a pathway to among hero-worshippers, I would just say that I picked these thoughta of remembrance from
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An airplane with nobody on board "ran away" at Reading Aerodrome. It was being over- hauled outside the hangars when it was accidentally started. It jerked forward. Mechanles jump- ad for their lives and the machine sped across the landing ground in front of the club house.
The machine actually made a perfect take-off and was soaring into the air when the undercarri- age struck a fence at the end of the aerodrome and was smashed. Had it not been for the fence the staff might have had to chase a pilotloss machine for miles.
who opposed us. There was some- thing of his spirit that seemed to All the air as music la carried silently through the other on Hertzian waves. High above the waving corn that leant and rustled to the summer breeze of Flanders his red plane ranged the skies,
Behind his windscreen his keen blue eyes searched the skies for his next bag-often the bursts of the anti-aircraft shells revealed its position. The Red Baron climbed above his foe. When he dived he dived to kill. Hla shoot- Ing was practised and deadly.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen was a. sportsman, son of a land- squire, whose family owning the many that fill the sickled lanoter, three ozs, sugar, and six ozs. sports were hunting and shooting of the flower of youth.
treadle or syrup. Add 3% ozs. and riding. Eleven days short of Albert Ball was the youngest of flour, 1⁄2 oz. ground ginger, and a 26 when he fell to the ground In the three aces whose feats 1 shall little cinnamon. Bent well. Puthis all-red Fokker triplane, Man- describe. As a hoy he was keen little spoonfuls of it on a well fred was the greatest hunter of on. photography, chemistry, buttered baking tih, cook from them all. He looked upon air mechanics, and gardening. Heive to 10 minutes in a brisk oven, fighting as a sport. gave no special sign of excellence cut into pieces, and roll them in athletics. But he made things round a wooden roller (1% inch. -boats and rafts-with his own in diameter) to cool. Stored in hands, and operated them single- an air-tight tin they will keep
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niece of Sir Walter Scott,
He graduated to the Air Force from the cavalry, and first became an observer on the Russian front,
then a bomber on the Western front. His restless spirit longed. to handle the controls himself. He met Boclcke and worshipped
god of Germany,
When war broke out he joined the 2nd City Battalion of the Sher- wood Foresters. He was promot-an only son. His mother was at him, for Boelcke was then the air ed sergeant soon after, and was commissioned second lieutenant in October 1914. In June 1915, tired of the endless training for ground work, he began to take flying lessons on his own initiative, pay ing for them himself.
He was in the Royal Flying Corps by the middle of October
1915.
JOY OF FLYING
Then he met Boelcke once more.
Joyfully he accepted the invitation of the great ace to join his squadron,
On his first solo flight Richtho- As a boy he was of a delicate and highly strung constitution, en crashed on landing. But per- and was still at school when warsistence was rewarded. He learnt to fly two-seaters. Still he fought broke out. That clash of arms to gain entry into the single-seater prevented him from entering the class, while he piloted his heavy. banking profession. He endeav- oured to enlist, but time after time plane above the Russian troops. was rejected on medical grounds. Eventually, he got into the Army as a mechanic In the French Air He went to France in February Service. Fond of things mechan- 1916 just at the time when fight-ical and, especially of motor-cars ing in the air was beginning to and motor-cycles he found himself Assume serious proportions. His la his element. His keenness soon Arat work, was carried out in two-gained him permission to train as
pleasure seaters. Ball's
was a pilot, found in the joy of flying. His He was a born flyer. After a work as a hunter in the air came short course of training he got his second to tho love of flight itself.brevet on April 26, 1915. Six But by the middle of May 1916 weeks later he brought down his he was mounted in a single-seater first enemy on the Soissons front. He was then sendto-fly a single- aeroplane and had brought down his first enemy. He had started seater, and he continued to fight in single-seatera until his death. on his fighting career in the air.
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LEARNED TO KILL Under the expert training of his leader, Richthofen learnt his art of killing on the Somme front. Hls bag began to grow. He pre- sented himself with a silver cup for each new victory. His name was made. Boelcke fell and was killed when his 'plane crashed into another German plane in the mid- dle of a dog-fight
Richthofen took his place in command. He was wounded. A bullet scared his head. He went on leave. That wound left him wondering if his life was quite in-
confidence vincible. His
Was slightly. But he came back and fought on. His fame spread across the world.
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and scrapped his way through the but by the close of that year he dog-fights by his skill in Aying was the victor of 22 fights:- He brought his enemies down by On one occasion ho shot down his ability to shoot.
three enemy machines in the At last, a victor over 43 aero-course of a fight lasting only a Ho had shot down 80 aeroplanes; make of 117 planes, he himself fell on May 7, few minutes; on another occasion killed 87 men in air duels; the toll 13 Light from the deept
15 Columns in a row are writton 1017, before he reached the age he shot down four enemy 'planes of his prisoners stood at 22. On
about nasty low fellow. of 21. None of his flying part-In one day. He was the leading April 21, 1918, in a terrific dog 18 A great actress in her day, but ners saw him go. One writes: fighter of the famous Storka' fight he met his death. Guns were just plain Jane in the end.
"On either side machine guns Squadron.
firing, machine guns rattling from 19 A Greek beginning, and were spitting death at him. A In spite of a delicate constitu- the ground and in the air. Pursa-20 a Greek poet. cloud of German machines weretion and a vivid imagination-two ing a Camel in relentless flight, 22 To run swiftly in America. circling about, pecking at him just great handicaps to an air fighter-Richthofen in turn was pursued by 24 A single animal does more than like great hawks after their prey. he became one of the foremost air-another Camel,
26 Suffer severely. A dozen of their machines were
Captain Roy Brown's stream of
27 "Shun all" In dry river-beds detached to engage us while the Early in the year of his death bullets penotrated the Fekker's (anag). others gave the coup de grace to he felt that he had only six months cockpit. The Fokker glided down 30 Versatile when many
are in- Ball. He disappeared in the midat more to live and that if the war and landed almost intact. In the cluded. of a cloud of German machines, was not over before then he would cockpit, strapped to his scat, sat and for a time it was impossible give his life for France. On the Red Baron, dead, with a bullet to distinguish friend from foe." September 11, 1917. Guynemer was from Brown's guna through his
And Ball went down fighting shot down and killed, and France head. gamely to the last, killed in action mourned a valiant pilot with 53 by the guns of Lowthar von Rich-victories to his name. thofen, the brother of the famous Red Baron.
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men of the world.
Among these three great acea of the War there is a difference in the tally of machinos brought down, but there is not one hair's- breadth between them in the bravery of their work, Were they alive to-day they would salute each other with pride and honour.
NAME STILL LIVES The name. Richthofen lives in Germany as that of Nelson lives At the age of 23, Captain in England. Those of us who Georges Guynemer was the cham-fought on the Western front in the plon fighting airman of France. accond half of the war knew his Instead, their souls rest in the One of a family of three, he was name as well as did his comrades Valhalla of the glorious dead.
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