Show Missed Deaths Death's Death Touch by hy Proverbial Eyelash Who had the closest call In the World war Perhaps It was Capt Curtis Barnes Seventy-eighth Seventy division A A E 1 F I In the Argonne offensive A machine bullet crashed through his bIg tin hat and he be was not hit although It was close dose enough to take out the left lens of ot his eyeglasses Then there Is the case of Cadet Callet FIske He was In the observers observer's cockpit of a Breguet feet over Clermont Ferrand France In 1917 1317 during aerial gunnery training training- when he be was thrown out of ot the cockpit with th the gun In n his grasp Ill Ele was tossed clear six feet lie He landed flat flaton flaton on his stomach exactly astride of the narrow rear part of ot the and managed to work his way back to the cockpit Then the commanding officer ordered a lot of ot safety belts |