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TALOUR in the air was not the prorogative of any one nation 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 agro- planes. In their cockpits, they rodo to war alone (as did the knights of old upon their char gers) to single out their adver sarios, engage. in mortal combat, and fight the swiftést-paced duels the world has evor known.
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An airplane with nobody on board "ran away" at Reading Aerodrome. It was heing over- hauled outside the hangars when It was accidentally started. It jerked forward. Mechanles jump- od for their lives and the machine aped across the landing ground in front of the club house.
The machine actually made n perfect take-off and was soaring into the air when the undercarri- age struck a fence at the end of the aerodrome and was sinkshed. Had it not been for the fence the staff might have had to chase n pilotless machine for miles.
On
who opposed us. There was some. thing of his spirit that seemed to Ali tho air as music is carried silently through the ether 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 koen blue eyes searched the skies for his next bag-often the bursts of the anti-aircraft shells revealed;
Red Baron Its position. The climbed above his foe. When he dived ho dived to kill. His shoot- Ing was practised and deadly.
It is ever invidious to create distinctions. And if, in this brief article, to leave untold the tale of the magic worth of Barker, Mc- Cudden, Mannock, Schaefer, Voss, Nungesacr Boelcke, Fonk, and
dissension opens a pathway to Among hero-worshippers, I would just say that I picked these THIS is an old time favourite. Melt together three oz. but thoughts of remembrance from the many that all the sickled lane ter, three oza, sugar, and six oz. of the flower of youth.
ireacle or syrup. Add 31⁄2 oza, Albert Hall was the youngest of flour, oz. ground ginger, and a the three aces whose feats I shall little cinnamon. Beat well. Put describe. As a boy he was keen little spoonfuls of it on a well on photography, chemistry, buttered baking tin, cook from them all. mechanics, and gardening. He five to 10 minutes in a brisk even, gave no special gign of excellence cut into peces, and roll them in athletics. But he made things round a wooden roller (11⁄2 inch. -boats and rafts with his own in diameter) to cool. Stored in hands, and operated them singlo- | an air-tight tin they will keep handed.
fresh and crisp for days.
When war broke out he joined the 2nd City Battalion of the Sher-
Baron Manfred von Richthofen was a sportsman, son of a land- owning squire, whose family sports were hunting and shooting and riding. Eleven days short of 26 when he fell to the ground in his all-red Fokker triplane, Man- fred was the greatest hunter of Ile looked upon air
fighting as a sport.
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 Boelcke and worshipped
god of Germany.
wood Foresters. He was promot-an only son. His mother was ahim, for Boelcke was then the air ed sorgeant goon after, and was niece of Sir Walter Scott, commissioned second lleutenant in As a boy he was of a delicate October 1914. In June 1915, tired and highly strung constitution, of the endless training for ground and was still at school when war work, he began to take flying broke out. That clash of arms to gain entry into the single-seater lessons on his own initiative, pay-prevented him from entering the class, while he piloted his heavy ing for them himself.
He was In the Royal Flying Corps by the middle of October
1916.
JOY OF FLYING
banking profession. He endeav- oured to enlist, but time after time 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 His keenness soon
On his first solo flight Richtho- fen crashed on landing. But per sistence was rewarded. He learnt. to fly two-seaters. Still he fought
'plane above the Russian troops.
Joyfully he accepted the invitation Then he met Boelcke once more.
of the great aco to join his squadron.
LEARNED TO KILL Under the expert training of his
was
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ing in the air was boginning to and motor-cycles he found himself leader, Richthofen learnt his art assume serious proportions. His in his element. Arst work was carried out in two- gained him permission to train as of killing on the Somme front. His bag, began to grow. He pre- scaters. Ball's pleasure was a pilot. found in the joy of flying. His He was a born flyer. After a Bented himself with a silver cup work as a hunter in the air came short course of training he got his for each new victory. His name Boolcke fell and was second to the love of flight itself. brevet on April 26, 1916. Six was made.
But by the middle of May 1916 weeks Inter ho brought down his killed when his 'plane crashed into he was mounted in a single-seater first enemy on the Soissons front. another German plane in the mid-
dle of a dog-ûght.. aeroplane and had brought down He was then sent to fly a singlo-
Richthofen took his place in his first enemy. He had started senter, and he continued to fight command. He was wounded. A on his fighting career in the air. in single-seaters until his death. bullet seared his head. He went Sometimes in patrol and some- His mount was usually a Spadon leave. That wound left him times flying by himself, he fought He was wounded in March 1916, wondering if his life was quite in- and scrapped his way through the but by the close of that year he vincible. His
9 A dyer might be, when caught confidence
Thus
In the act dog-fights by his skill in flying, was the victor of 22 fights.
shaken slightly. But he came 10 The fowl that's never uncovered, He brought his enemies down by On one occasion he shot down back and fought on. Ils fame 11 Spanish gentleman. his ability to shoot,
three enomy machines in the spread across the world.
13 This is awkward: what will you At last, a victor over 43 aero-course of a fight lasting only a He had shot down 80 neroplanes;
make from planes, he himself fell on May 7, few minutes; on another occasion killed 37 men in air duela; the toll 18 Light
the deep? 1917, before he reached the age he shot down four enemy planes of his prisoners stood at 22. On 16 Columns in a row are written of 21. None of his flying part in one day. He was the leading April 21, 1918, in a terrifle dog-18 A great actress in her day, but
about a nasty low fellow. ners anw him go. One writes: fighter of the famous Storks' fight he met his death. Guns were just plain Jane in the end.
"On' either side machine guns Squadron.
ring, machine guns rattling from 19 A Greek beginning, and were spitting death at him. A In spite of a delicato constitu- the ground and in the air. Parsu 20 a Greek poet. cloud of German machines were tion 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, A dozen of their machines were mon of the world. detached to engage un while the others gave the coup de grace to Ball. He disappeared in the midst of a cloud of German machines, and for a time it was impossible
onu,
of
are in-
Captain Roy Brown's stream of 26 Suffer severely.
27 “Shun Early in the year of his death bullets penetrated the Fokker's
all" in dry river-beds he felt that he had only six months cockpit. The Fokker glided down 30 Versatile when many
(anag.). more to live and that if the war and landed almost intact. In the cluded. was not over before then he would cockpit, strapped to his seat, sat 31 Black Sea port. give his life for France. On the Red Baron, dead, with a bullet 32 This in active in Clitheroc.
from Brown's guns through his 80 They are cool smoking for n
singlo R.H.A. head.
to distinguish friend from for." Septembar 11, 1917, Guynemer was And Ball went down fighting shot down and killed, and France gamely to the last, killed in action mourned a valiant pilot with 63 by the guns of Lowthar von Rich- | victories to his name. thofen, the brother of the famous Red Baron.
RED BARON
Among these three great aces of the War there is a difference in the tally of machines 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 cach other with pride and hondur.
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.second half of the war knew his Instead, their souls reat in the One of a family of three, he was name as well as did his comrades Valhalla of the glorious dead.
SALESMAN SAM
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