Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 2 | Airman Rescues Crippled British Bombing Machine

wounded by the machine gun fire of the Germans, who were about to finish the Britishers when Lieutenant Campbell dashed in. He emptied' his machine gun at the Germans and the'enemy replied, but Campbell's fire became so hot for the Germans that they withdrew. Lieutenant Campbell then escorted the British machine ma-chine to safety behind the American lines. After seeing the crippled bomber alight safely on its own field, Lieutenant Campbell Camp-bell circled around once, waved his hand over the side of his airplane and disappeared. disap-peared. The pilot was helped out of his machino ma-chino and his wound was dressed. Then he went to the telephone and called up the American aviation field. He got Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Campbell on the wire and thanked the American profusely for saving his life. : AIRMAN RESCUES CRIPPLED BRITISH BOMBING MACHINE WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 29. (By the Associated Press.i; Lieutenant Douglas Campbell of California rescued a crippled British bombing machine from two German airplanes air-planes which attacked it near the Toul sector today. Two patrols of American pursuit airplanes had gone out to protect pro-tect a large squadron of British bombing bomb-ing machines returning from a raid into Germany. Just before the airmen crossed behind the line one of the British machines became be-came separated from the party and was attacked by two German Albatross machines. ma-chines. The British observer had been