Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-26 | Page 43 | Flyers Awarded the War Cross as Death Comes

iLYERS AWARDED ! THE WAR GROSS AS OHJMS American Aviators Operating Operat-ing Northwest of Toul Sector Fatally Injured in Fall From Plane. VICTORIES GAINED BY AERO SQUADRON Former Automobile Racer Adds Another Aerial Victory Vic-tory to Record; Sends Enemy Machine Down. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Friday, May 24. (By the Associated As-sociated Prees.) An American aerial pursuit squadron is now operating over tile American sector northwest of Toul, it is now permitted to announce. All the pilots, whose air exploits have been recorded re-corded up to this time, belong to this squadron, which has a special insignia. The squadron Is flying in Nleuport chasing chas-ing machines. " The first victories in which the American Amer-ican squadron brought down two German machines were gained the day after they took up flying on this sector. The occupants occu-pants of the German machines were made prisoner. Other machines aside from those In this squadron, It Is permitted to mention, also are flying on the Toul front. The fact that an American squadron was there rould not bo mentioned previously because be-cause it was not desired that the Germans Ger-mans should know the fact.