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Show AMERICAN AVIATORS ! RECEIVEJIGH PRAiSE Dispatch From Front Tells of Valiant Work in Felling Fell-ing Hun Planes. ! WASHINGTON, June 11. Delails of j American aviators in recent operations on the French front are given in an official of-ficial dispatch today from France. "The American aviators in the French army," said the dispatch, "have continued con-tinued to distinguish themselves in the course of the last operations. The aviator, David E. Putnam of Brookline, Mass., brought down three enemy machines and has been mentioned twice in the order of the dav. The total of his victories amounts to six. Putnam has already received re-ceived the military cross and has been promoted sergeant aviator in the French army. He has not yet received his ! transfer into an American aviation unit. Lieutenant Bewail, afler a long fight, . brought down a German biplane. The ; aviators, Stanley and Veil, have each ; carried off a victory." . :, |