Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-10-12 | Page 1 | Huge Death Toll Paid by Air Fighters

DEATH I I TOll PAID PAD PADDY I I i 1 I DY DJ AIR All I I I I I I II Germany Heaviest t Loser I in Sky SIy Battles Leaders Lead Lead- I I ers on Both Sides Shot I Down During puring Sept I IBy IBy By International News Service PARIS PAUlS Sept CJ t. t 30 M By 3 Mail ai toNell to to New Nell 1 York ork pet pet Oct 12 12 1 This i h has been the bli blackest est J ri month th in inI I point of e casualties among among gf expert x elt aviators since the war h began galI Germany ha has been teen Jp-en time the h heaviest avi st 1 i loser losee l' l fOUr n class class clib pilots Wv-j Wv ng he been killed Idl l giul h hei f pr pm- I b being wounded Fr Fr no has lost Guynemer I I the ue U ace ice C 01 of ac ace acl piK ao P a ll lid d tw h er r lenda lend lend- I I I the ue U ace ice C 01 of ac ace acl piK ao P a ll lid d tw h er r lenda lend lend- lag ing pilots were wounded I Captain Baron von yon I leader of ot the famous tango esca- esca escadrille 1 I Germanys Germany's leading aerial formation forI for for- I mation has been knocked down I and so badly wounded that It is bej be- be j be- be believed he will never even walk again i j much less fly Cly The barons baron's s younger brother Lieutenant von flying in the time same formation lias nas I I been killed and Lieutenants Vos Voss s Wolf Vol and Dossenbach have ha also perIshed per per- Beside the death of or Guynemer I the time French aviation service e lost Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain tamo who was badly wounded but Is in hi a fair air way to reI re- re I cover Captain Matton another expert exi ex- ex I ex-I i pert airman was waR severely woun Through the fact that t the British II keep the royal flying corps and the I royal roal air ah service bervice anonymous their s I II I losses are not definitely known but it is reported that two crack English I pilots a Canadian and an Australian have hu been missing after alto encounters I with German machines far Inside the German lines I With rare goo good fortune the Italian air service has scored heavy beavy blows against the and death notices in Vienna and Budapest newspapers show that a number of the best pilots fl flying for the dual monarchy monarch have been t. lost lostA A revision of the list of French Drench I act aces now nom places Second Lieutenant I Nungesser in in in- inthe the lea lead 1 with wILh thirty German aeroplanes to his hil credit Nungesser is an Alsatian b by birth and would Mould be shot by the Germans as asa asa asa a traitor if it he fell into their hands Nungesser has been wounded more times than an any other man fighting to- to day daj He seems to bear a charmed life and so badly Is he maimed that tho t the time aviation service Is the only branch of the army that will have him He walks lame as a result of ot a a. shattered shattered shat- shat hip caused by an explosive bullet Continued on page B 8 8 I HUGE DEATH TOLL Continued from page 1 I. His other ankle Is stiff because a machine gun bullet split the bone One of of his arms Is Js fitted with a a. sliding j I steel teel arrangement aiding him in flexing flexing flex flex- ling ing It because a bullet knocked off the tip of his elbow The roof of his j I mouth i is h a platinum plate and his I rums gums are chiefly made of gold Isis His i face Is scarred like the visage of a ai ai i i Heidelburg university duellist from an anI antiaircraft shrapnel which tore the I skin I