Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-26 | Page 43 | Two Officers Decorated in Last Moments

with palm for excellent, faithful and courageous cour-ageous work in numerous former flights. Their valor in operating in Seicheprey on April 20 under heavy fire and under adverse ad-verse weather conditions were especially mentioned." An additional communique, issued later, said: t "Hostile machines referred to in today's to-day's communique were brought down by Lieutenant Rickenbacher and Lieutenant Buford. "In Lorraine on May 21 a hostile airplane air-plane flying over our lines was disabled and forced to land in its own territory. There it was destroyed by our artillery fired adjusted with balloon observation." TWO OFFICERS DECORATED IN LAST MOMENTS WASHINGTON, May 25. General Pershing in his communique for May 24 reported to the war department the deaths on Wednesday of two American officers, First Lieutenant Walter V. Barneby, signal sig-nal corps, and Second Lieutenant Kenneth Ken-neth P. Colbert, TJ. S. marines, a a result re-sult of injuries received in an airplane lull. Before they died they were decorated with tho war cross. m "Section A. There are no developments to report- It is established that our aviators avi-ators shot down two hostile machines on May 21. "Section B. On Wednesday afternoon First Lieutenant Walter V. Barneby, signal sig-nal corps, of Sumner, Wash., and Second Jiieutenant Kenneth P. Colbert, U. S. mantles, ma-ntles, of Orange, N. J., were fatally Injured In-jured by the accidental fall of an airplane in which they were acting respectively, alf pilot and observer. Both officers died during the night. In the evening both were decorated with the Croix de Guerre