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Show SPEED DEMON FELLS TEUTON R1CKENBACHER HAKES GOOD EDDIE RICKENBACHER. 1:; k 1 . " If I v J? 1 ' : j '.' ' Champion Auto Racer Is Winning Fame in Aerial Warfare. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCS April 30. (By the Associated Press.) A German airplane was brought down in enemy territory last nigrt by Captain Norman Hall of Colfax, Iowa, and Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacher of Columbus, Ohio, after a duel over the American line on the Toul sector. The American birdmen first engaged the enemy machine over the American lines. Lieutenant Rickenbacher, well known as an automobile racer in the United States, swept over the boche and opened fire with his machine gun, while Captain Hall, formerly a member of the Lafayette escadrllle, darted behind the German and also opened fire. The German Ger-man made desperate attempts to escape and returned the fire of the Americans, several bullets piercing Captain Hall's airplane. The Americans peppered the enemy machine ma-chine with bullets and drove it down until un-til it fell behind the German trenches. Captain Hall and Lieutenant Rickenbacher Ricken-bacher returned from the fight unscathed. This was the third enemy machine to be bagged by the Americans in three weeks, while several others have been reported brought down unofficially. Captain Hall served as a private in the British army at the outbreak of the war and later joined the French aerial forces. He is the author of "Kitchener's Mob." |