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Show fiBICIS 811 FPTipiES Thirty Yankee Aviators Mentioned in Report of British Force. "vTA SHTNGT O N . Sept. 2 S. Thirty Arnericar.s are rnentioned, some of them several times, as having brought down enemy machines in a summary of British Brit-ish Koyai air force reports for the period pe-riod July 1-August 23, made public today by the war department. They served with the British forces after training: in English schools. Fifty enemy airplanes and seven balloons bal-loons were brought down by the Americans. Ameri-cans. The following contests are described: de-scribed: Lieutenant L. Campbell (Wakeman, Ohio) and Lieutenant L. A. Hamilton C Pitts field. Mass.), encountered five enemy ene-my airplanes over Armentieres. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Camobell shot two of these down, which we're both seen to crash by other pilots. Lieutenant Hamilton also accounted for one. Lioutenant H. G. Landis (Chicago), after af-ter a combat with a hostile machine he , sent down in a cloud of smoke, attacked a hostile balloon, but, observing an j enemy two-seater near, diving east, engaged en-gaged and shot it down. Returning to the balloon he fired into it at very close range, whereupon' it went down in flames. Lieutenant J. A. Keating (Chicago) and Second Lieutenant Simpson (not identified), identi-fied), on returning from a bomb raid, were attacked by two large formations of the enemy scouts. The first enemy airplane to attack at close range was shot down in flames by Lieutenant Simpson. Simp-son. A little later a second enemy airplane, air-plane, which was attacking from the rear, also was shot down in flames, and, during dur-ing the combat, two more hostile machines ma-chines were seen to spin down and crash. Lieutenant R. G. Landis, in a general engagement with enemy scouts, shot down a Fokker binlane, which crashed near La Bassee! He then attacked a tri-plane. tri-plane. which was on the tail of a Bristol fighter whose observer was apparently hit, and, getting below its tail, brought down this machine also. Lieutenant Williams (not identified), American squadron, was hit in the back and his Detrol tank pierced by machine-gun machine-gun fire." In spite of his wound, he came back, with his finger stopping the hole in the petrol tank, and landed succesgiully after having engaged a supply train from a height of 100 feet. Other American aviators mentioned include: First Lieutenants Orville A. Ralston, a 141 H street, Lincoln, Neb.; Henry R. Clay, Jr., Fort Worth, Texas, and Second Sec-ond Lieutenant Edwin Shaw, Hollywood, Cal. |