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V Alt All 1 And nd the thC countries 1 n. n Again I decided to pay a a call cal at Jerry gln field Clel at Verdun antI and ascertain the ex extent ex- ex there get et out and tent of oC the damage c In the tail o of m my with somo some Jerry Jern welcomed me roe and nd wanted to know amusement I whether this dropping in on him was Yesterday dally daIly recurrence to bo be a n and today It had been a broken prop toca Before DeCore answering him himI a n broken tail tl made a together we I got ot out and minute examination of m my machine A neat row o of bullet holes ran back down the tail of ot m my machine They were as nicely spaced as n if the they had been pu put t in b by careful reul c measurement measure measure- ment Tho The first hole was about abut four Cour Inches back o of the pad on which my head rests when I am nm In Inthe Inthe inthe the scat seat heat The Tho others were directly back bock o of It at regular Intervals One the explosive bullet bulet had struck the longeron that runs the len length th of oC the e. e and nd this had made the sharp explosion that I had heard at that time The gunners on the truck had done an excellent bit of wo Attack S Fokker vital ital None ono of tho the holes were In a part of ot the tho machine machine I took 0 oft off the and ami field after a n short inspection soon feld covered the fifteen or sixteen miles that In lay between the Verdun field and our own Upon landing I found bad news awaiting me On the previous afternoon Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant Sherry and Lieutenant Nutt ut both bothof bothof of 94 H squadron had gone one out on patrol patrol patrol pa pa- and had failed to come In Lon Long after dark their mechanics remained on aCor the field feld popping up Very lights In the hope that the they might still sti be bo searching about about trying to find their wa way At last we abandoned all al hope I ourselves and waited for Cor the mornIngs mornIng's mornIngs mornIng's morn- morn I Ings Ing's ne news s 's from Cram outside sources i Now ow It had arrived and t to m my great reat Joy it was In the form Corm of or a telephone call cal from old 01 Madam Sherry him him- self sel But Hut his next message Informed us ua that Nutt ut had h 1 been killed in combat combat com corn bat And Sherry himself had been through an experience that might easily east t fly ily have turned ones one's hair ga gray Just before lunch time Sherry came In b by automobile and told us the star story of or his experiences Ho and Nutt ut had attacked ed an overwhelming overwhelming over over- o er whelming formation of or el eight ht Fokker machines The They had stolen up on the and counted upon getting ono one or two victims before tho the others were aware of oC their presence But ut utho Jho ho ho at attack attack attack at- at tack failed and suddenly both American American Ameri Amen can pilots were having the fight of or their lives The Hun pilots were not only onh skillful and experienced but hut tho they worked to together ether with such nicety that Sherry and Nutt NUl were unable either to hold their own or to escape Soon each was fighting a separate battle batte a against four tour enemy machines Sherry saw Nutt g go- go o crashing down and later learned that he had been I shot hot through the heart and md killed kled In air A moment later Inter Sherry's machine machine machine ma ma- chine received several bullets In the motor which put it I immediately out of ot commission Dropping swiftly to earth Sherry saw that the Hun pilots wore not taking tak nJ any liny chances but were determined determined de determined de- de to kill kl him as he fell Yank Survives Survive Torment Tormenta He le was two to miles mies and more In In- Inthe the theair theair theall air all when he began began his forced descent All Al the way down tho the enemy pilots pursued him firing through h his machine machine ma ma- chine continuously as it i glided smoothly smooth smooth- ly h towards earth Only b by miracles a dozen times repeated did he hc escape u death from Crom their bullets Ho He saw siw RW tho the lines below him and mado efforts to guide his machine to tn our side of or tho the fence despite the furious Curious attempts o of tho the boches bodies to prevent ent this escape At last he hj crashed Into one oo o of the million shell holes that covered No Mans Man's Land of last lat week His Ills machine machine ma- ma chine turned over and broke Into a score of oC fragments Sherry being thrown some yards ard away where ho he landed unhurt at nt the bottom of or another another another an an- other shell hel hole holo While he was still pinching himself to mal make e sure suro ho was actually unhurt he discovered his implacable enemies piquing upon him with their and firing long bursts of oC bul bullets ts Into his guns shell hole bolo with wih their machine Sherry clung FO so o closely closel to the sides o of his hole as ho could and watched the dirt dirt C fly 1 up ip all al around him as the made dive after dive e dl at him It I must have ha c been like watching a file of executioners leveling their guns at one and md firing dozens of or rounds without hitting one Except that in Sherry's case it was machine machino guns uns that were doln doing the firing Finally the Fol kers made off of for German Germany Crawling out of or his hole bole Sherry discovered that a n formation o of had come to his rescue and had chased the Germans homewards And then he be began an to wonder on which side of ot the trenches trencheR he had fallen falen For ho had been too bus busy dodging Folkers to know knos' where his crippled machine was taking him Pin Find Jon Doughboy Hiding Nearby enrby One can Imagine Sherry's jO Joy when he heard a doughboy in perfectly good United States yell cl from rom a neighboring shell shel hole Hc Hey gU guy Where hero tho the h s h-'s s 's your our gas gasmask I mask I I Madam adam didn't care for the moment whether he had iad a gas as mask or not so glad wa was he to learn that he had fallen Calen In the land lando landof landof amon among friends and was sas still sti o of the tho l living lie le quickly tumbled Into the next shell shel hole holc where he ho found his new friend The la latter Ler In informed formel him that he was still sti In No 0 Mans Man's Ian Land that the German Infantry were only a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred yards away wa and that gas sas shells shelo had been coming across that space pace all al the afternoon He even en gave n e Madam his hla own gas mask and his pistol sa sayIng saying say say- In Ing ho guessed ho he was noro noro used to toJas togas togas gas Jas than an aviator would be Ho lie alvise Sherry to la lay low where he was wat until nl nightfall when ho he would sec see him back Into our lines And thus Lieutenant Lieu tenant Sherry spent the next few Cc hours reviewing tho the strange episodes that flavor avor the career carer of an aviator Continued Tomorrow |