Show I Flier flier Downs rt TI His Man Ivian Behind the T. T Lines Lines I 4 Would Rather Fight Germans Than Eat Chilled Motor Came Near Causing Aviators Aviator's Fall FallI I r I y A I a 4 e I r 44 t I I c I The Th Ai Air ono one of the t paintings by Lieutenant Henri Farro Farre L gs French r r. r of p. p army now on exhibition in this country LN By y u. u A. A Pollock J American Aviator in the tho Lafayette Flying Corps of the tho French Foreign Legion 1918 hv hy tho ho Newspaper Enterprise Association During the height of ot the tho titanic struggle glo for the thc Chemin des Dames I had my first duel with a Boche Buche flyer l erI er I ha had been transferred to squadron 65 after atter the first army was withdrawn from Crom Flanders I was returning from froma a patrol Everybody y was hungrily looking forward to 1 I know I was when was when we spotted a n single Geri German Jerman Ger Jer- i man machine just oIt o o- It seemed a crime to attack tho Boche Bocho with such overwhelming o od odds s in our favor but Jut war is W wai u lI ana ani 11 It Vu vas our duty uty to surround and annihilate him Before concentrating concentrating- on tho the job I ItO tO took k tho the usual precautionary survey above below and in front in order to tobe tobe tobe be sure that no other enemy planes wore were in sight read ready to surprise me a at nt work ork It ItIC If IC I had not this tale most like likely would not have havo been written I was up meters Under m my tail at the meter level I saw aw two biplanes with tho the telltale black maltese crosses on their wings So there were two jobs to bo be done I left the lone lonc Boche to th thO rest of ot tho the patrol Me Ie for one of these other guys I Isaid Isaid I Isal sal said 1 to myself I COLD CHILLS MOTOR It was bitterly cold As I down the Ic Icy blast chilled m my HIsS L pana motor Tho gauge was steadily creeping down own to the dan danger er point one eye eve dod lodgIng dodging ln be be- be I tween the motor temperature indicator and the air pressure pressur of the es essence essence essence es- es sence tank I continued e 1 on m my dizzy live dive letting two or three out of my Vickers gun through tho propeller en route to be Je sure it was all right I foolishly put m my he head d over the sl side of ot the tho nacelle for a second and anti peered below to be sure just where I Iwas Iwas was an and nearly had hud In my he head d blown oft off Down I almost vertically at miles an hour and down my motor temperature went too Six hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred yards from the nearest Boche and it had dropped to 35 degrees centigrade Fifty is supposed to bo be tho dead deadline deadline deadline line Below Delow that the motor might stall tall when I threw on tho Juice again and then mo me for tor the tho Karlsruhe concentration concentration concentration con con- camp and paper pants I There was nothing else to do but flatten out m my cuckoo put on full tull motor and let her warm up a n. bit This I did and then returned 1 to the attack But the thc Bodies Boches ha had 1 seen m my pre predicament iea- iea ment mont and had shoved off oft for tor their own lines The Tho maneuver brought both equi equidistant from me Then I saw a French making for the one ono nearest our lines It was piloted I later learned bY Major Lufberry Luf- Luf berry of or the I Es n the tho only American ace now alive I didn't butt Into this affair and Lufbery Luf- Luf bery brought his Boche Doche down ETIQUETTE OF AIR When two of or you oU are after atter the same I enemy It Is courteous an and customary to o allow the first man to get et his TIck ers era gun popping to finish him up tip I It Il Insures at least one pilot getting setting full ful credit for Cor tho the kill That is why wo we sel seldom encroach on 01 the patrol of ot an adjoining sector Sometimes of or course we cannot re resist resist re- re tho the temptation to do a n little trespassing trespassing tres tres- passing If It tho the prospects of ot a successful successful successful success success- ful encounter look too inviting to re resist re- re I In such a case If we wo bring a Boche down own the fellows of ot the other squa squadron ron have havo to blow us to a champagne champagne champagne cham cham- supper the thc next time we are together at some somo cozy little rendezvous In the tho rear At these parties we could coul always trust Le Boucher our pet humorIst humorist hu hu- hu- hu to keep things lively Poor Le LeBoucher LeBoucher LeBoucher Boucher hes he's now a missing a prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner I hope but Lut Im I'm afraid atral not Well reU to continue Foiled of one Boche I went for his friend I followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed lowe him for somo some miles going behind behind behind be be- hind and above his tall tail and let fly with a n whole belt belL Ho He went down downIn own In the steepest plaque I have ever seen My y motor was again shivering I around 30 degrees and as I was two miles from I 1 climbed back hack to tr the right air level rejoined to patrol patro and anti returned to camp I didn't have time to follow the Boches Boche's course to the ground to see whether he lie smashed 1 up or not not- notI I know he dI didn't go o down own in flames lames I reported a Boche Doche shot down buas bu but butas ut as s tim the incident was never confirmed by an any observation posts or balloons the rules of ot the game ame made it Impossible Impossible impossible sible for mo me to claim cre credit it But ButWell But Dut- Well m mv my time would come |