Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 39 | Exploits of Daring Yankee Flier Read like Romance

Exploits of Daring Yankee Flier Read Like Romance p I t 9 l 9 I Evidently four of em picked mo me out I got one One of or the most daring and success successful CuI of or American in the war Is Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant Patrick OBrien O'Brien of or tho British flying corps OBrien O'Brien who vho ho halls hails from Momence 1 Illinois has been enjoying a three months' months leave leavo In his native e land luring during which he has traveled aver a n largo large part of or the country an and talked In man many cities Heres Here's how 0 O Brien narrates one ono of his exploits Well Yell It was August 17 last Our flight of or I. I six machines had out for its dally daily two and a half halt hours bit in the theaIr theair theair air at Ono One of or the planes llanes had gone bone wrong in coming over tho the lines and amI had turned back So w wo we were only fiveL five l I had just Juat looked at m my Instrument and found we were feet In the air I had Just looked at nt my watch and found it was and had thought it Il wa was only ten minutes when wo would start for fOI home again I SINGLE FIGHTS FOUR HUNS I I was as feeling glad l d about that when wo we 0 saw nine of or the Huns Buns AN With ith three lother I I other British planes we went Into the the he I attack No o sooner were we engaged than eleven more Huns Buns who apparently had hadI that sort bort of or a 1 situation situa b bel en waiting for Just I tion lion dived down upon us Consequently we got ot hell I Evidently g four of em cm picked 1 mo mn out I 1 got ot one lie He was about thirty feet away awny w when I saw aw the thc stream of tracer bullets I from lit Vickers going into his neck nock I 1 my was wasT Bavarian found out afterwards he a I I For a minute 1 i was afraid we were vere In air all And all tho the time lime going to collide the I L could see sec and hear the bullets from froni I machine puns um of or those other Huns Buns around me Sur Sure you ou can see ce the bullets In gun hun wa was lIke meo a blueball blue i third bullet m my I ball hall of fire The Huns Buns use em ern too The smoke tracers tracer You can sec tec I 11 I French u lS tise I the bullets you ou shoot and the bullets the theother theother theother I other fellow shoots shoots shoots-it If the they dont don't hit l you AND ONE HIT HIMI HIM I thought Im going nn anyway a so Ill Il Ill I'll fight I was popping awa away whenever I could COUIl get a line on oa a Hun and I looked looke at my 10 In Instrument and saw I 1 was feet fee I up I wa way was Just thinking that If Ir I ran ranI I for tor it I would Just about fetch up in no noI noman's nomans nomans noman's mans man's land which land which I is no place to fetch fetch etch I when I got this here Lieutenant OBrien O'Brien lifted th the left leet side of oC a short bristly reddish-brown reddish mustache mustache mus nuts tache ache revealing re a ragged scar for scar for which i he wears a gold old stripe on his hla sleeve e wh why I wear this brush he he- explained explained ex ex- VAn An An eighth of or an Inch lower louer antI and that bullet would have wiped out all m mj my teeth Well VelI for what you ou might call can a 1 millionth mil mih- of a second 1 thought Ive l got ot mine 1 I felt the blow and that's all So SoI I 1 figure that a man mn who is 19 being shot to death knows It for an Instant Im Tho The next I knew I waked up the next morning in a Hun hospital Just behind the tho lines JInes Wo We 0 were vero Just to the east cast of or Ypres There was a I. I big push going on at the time and the tho Huns had established estah- estah lIi-hed lIi field hospitals close to their lines JInes If It OBrien O'Brien was waft captured d b bv by the Germans Ger Ger- mans asks wh why Is he not now I languishing In a German prison camp Just because German efficiency couldn't keep hUn him from escaping While ho he was wasI being carted c. off to a prison camp ml he I dived out of or th the window of or a thirty five mile tulle an hour train walked swain s and and andI crawled 50 0 miles m In n two seventy days lays I and Bel- Bel through lh Germany German 1 Luxemburg glum Ium got sol half electrocuted b by that nineteen nine nIne- teen foot oot electrical fence they havo roped I off orf Holland with and md finally molly dug clu- under the fence with his hare Kirc hands arriving In I Holland more lead dead tItan than aliv ull