Duchesne Courier | 1929-05-31 | Page 3 | Missed Death's Touch by Proverbial Eyelash

Missed Death's Touch by Proverbial Eyelash Who had the closest call in the World war? Perhaps it was Capt Curtis Barnes, Seventy-eighth division, A. E. F.,ln the Argonne offensive, A machine bullet crashed through his tin hat and he was not hit although it was close enough to take out the left lens of his eyeglasses. Then there is the case of Cadet Fiske, He was in the observer's cockpit of a Breguet 10,000 feet over Clermont Ferrand, France, In 1917, during aerial gunnery training, when he was thrown out of the cock-pit with the machine gun In his grasp. He was tossed clear six feet He landed flat on his stomach exactly astride of the narrow rear part of the fusilage and managed to work his way back to the cockpit Then the commanding officer ordered a lot of safety belts.