Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-21 | Page 20 | Feat of Yank Fliers in Air is Commended

FEAT 4 OF YANK I fLIERS IN AIRIs AIR IS COMMENDED I J 1 Rescue Crew r of British Seaplane Sea sea sea-I plane After Encounter With ith Huns I An American Aviation Base Somewhere Somewhere Somewhere Some Some- where In England June 20 The O.-The The feat of or two American aviators In rescuing the crew of or a 0 British h seaplane which had hall been forced to land on the tho surface surface surface sur sur- face of ot the North sea gea a after te- te tean an enCOunter encounter encounter ter with a n group of German airplanes received receive mention this we week k in Sn a British British Brit Brit- ish The official statement statement statement state state- ment however sal said only In on one case a stray bullet shot away awaya a n control and the British machine was forced to alight The crew was subsequently rescued h by another Brit Brit- British BrilI I ish seaplane which had hall been sent to lo I search for tor them The rescuing machine was aas manned by Ensigns Benjamin Leo and ami J. J J. J felin of oC the American naval aviation service Ensign n Lee Leo gave goa the Associated ed cd Press tho the following account of or the flight Our commanding officer an and two men left the station at 3 0 in the morning morning- on a n flight hl toward the Dutch coast Shortly after sunrise they the saw on the spots which rapidly a assumed the outlines of or German sea sea- I p v. v n DO Five to one is har hardly l a fight so the tho commanding officer after aCter a first diving charge through the enemy's formation for for- mation malion shoved sho down tho the nose of or his plane and hea headed ed homeward I Ills two men fired tired sharply from the after guns tun forcing the German scouts to l keep their distance were getting awn away I the Into all right even leading enemy dangerous territory when su suddenly a chance shot from one of or the time Germans Hermans took away a control and the flying boat crashed nose noso down town The three men fought clear of or the wreckage and got gothold gothold gothold hold of or a floating spar while the tho Germans realizing that th they were In dangerous country countr scooted awa away homo homo- ward It It was four hour hours later when the patrol was long overdue o that we w wore were rc sent pent out to search for them Wo 0 searched the tho horizon as wo we speeded along eastward covering co at the visibility visibility Ial a band about t twenty tnt nt miles wide Finally one of us HI picked cd up a ablack ablack ablack black speck which soon grew into a a. apiece piece of or wreckage with three men on It Dropping our bombs at a safe distance distance dis dis- ls- ls tance we throttled down our motors nn and landed l n n near ar the crashed seaplane but we It was a delicate operation managed to taxi over to the wreckage and pick off oct th the four our men meanwhile sen sending back the good news b by wire wire- less commanding The rho only comment the time officer had Iad to make e on his his experience was vas What a ducking Just a n bit bitof bitof of ot experience AI X nIC X n it I n. n London July Jul Sergeant 0 Sergeant O. Taylor Talol of 1 boating boat boat- while Los Angeles AnAcles was wac drowned hog ing today at Norwich