Show Iii AIR AIE ARt Af IC KLESS Have No Fear of ot o ofFar Far Above the Earth THRILL TROOPS K H Exploits of Avia- Avia V 0 Hesitate at g Are Brilliant ept t 23 The The new fighting fwu m all France Is now petty officer has las as made a record by deI de- de ht I Prussian machines in sine ame number of weeks and of the terrors of the outing service one of those readily blinding the outpost kaisers kaiser's Ic military Somme front the the iad additional honor of waned by the Prussian ad- ad for his violence and ing This honor he shares Nun- Nun Navarre A report found ono on officer C o spoke complain complain- be aej frightful brutality of ot rand fand and both Guynemer and v 1 een referred to as as out outi i lent lists Navarre who for held the first rank is now hoW hoWrd rd Nungesser's two def de- de of f balloons are th his aeroplane victories at present at follows tenant fifteen d destroyed troyed including one tenant Nungesser thirteen i Including luding two ant Navarre twelve tenant ant Chaput nine ma ma- one nine machines one i Donne eight aeroplanes eight machines one d Rochefort five aero- aero tenant sm not only of France the h countries of the allies o c on the fighting the republic The service Inestimable price anc and which their exploits I on the battlefields calculation in Airmen rench rUch military authorities ted their rule to withhold n tion on for deeds of valor art ar r and have now made to publish the names oi of ofa a fighters in the official lions the reason is stated 1 alf of the troops In tn the tew seems to furnish more he entire arm army than the thee thet t e successes of the air d 11 II the details regarding a of these remarkable t te Je re read with avidity by den d en ii ide Y V work of Adjutant E E. b bringing down eight maIng maing ma- ma the summer Ing present summer p h some dramatic incidents incidents' fe fl has added a specia lats lat- lat s 5 0 the case of this young native of Brley Briey In Lorraine fled Hed led by the Invaders he has since If the beginning of theal the theall all al communication with his dUpe dhe news of the treatment bhe he foe to the occupants a add d districts was the mo- mo Induced him to plead to be bo enter the air service as elf ved he could do most to II 11 treatment of his own i blond lond and forever smiling h-er h her of the extraordinary 1 In the air whose the ferocity t 1 devote themselves to of their adversaries thi ago he was attached to toua us ua ron of an I s of the Airon Air one on olle of three young pilots of the air who at the gr graduated from the scouting t chaser machine In a of time one of the R. R was taken pris- pris h having brought down two the second was seriously nd now in a hospital hav- hav lithe Ithe military medal and the i IH Honor nor The third Dorme Donne ty avenged his friends j f. victory did not count for forn n e descended after deIo del de- de Io l Fokker ker the modesty which as well as the eterI eter- eter I prevented him from more morell ally ll lit mentioning the exploit lythe later report of on- on brought the fact to the F- F authorities but the t chine had fallen within theIn the i In ines s and the victory was td to Dorme ich brought him his first one of the the- most daring that On a foggy day he ho heng ng up a Boche Bache who was and when attempt- attempt for 9 norder to maneuver closer jemy erny he came in collision ther et eri Prussian below him Jad not adnot not seen a moment that I would through he wrote after- after S particularly as I pom inside the Prussian remember the crunching I tb to the collisIon and nothing I had lost confor con- con for some moments and th the French lines pa slowed down as the II must have been Fortunately my fo foH t the strain and I was H to our lines The right peen Deen een alm pulled out all alt on the right were gaJ ed as a n miracle that a au a a. wrecked condition ep jn the air for tor even a was rewarded medal t the Air s 29 years year old when the and ad begun to serve his f army a an artilleryman in I rn ng wil Ii h his hh regiment reg sergeant and after a meritorious service in the artillery he was admitted to the aviation department department department depart depart- ment menta a tt year ago and attached to the biplane service lie received re the war cross with several palms and recently was awarded the Legion of lIon Honor or Ills His imperturbable ble gayety makes him one of the most popular of the airmen airmen air air- men welcome everywhere as he finds the witty remark to relieve even the most unpleasant situations Like all the successful air fighters he lie is not only a u. pilot of supreme ability but an artist in the air Ho lIe wins his fights by constantly maneuvering around his adversary by working with tireless patience to make the latter loose his nerve and exhaust his machine gun bullets and when this has been accomplished ac ac- ac- ac com pUshed he lie approaches and ana calmly calmly calmly calm calm- ly finishes ies his man While Adjutant Dorme Donne has been arousing the attention of the army and th the nation another adjutant has been receiving still more attention from his superiors and from the members members mem mem- bers hers of the air service Adjutant Lenoir Lenoir Le- Le noir is known within the relatively small circle of the well informed d to be one of the airmen who have rendered I supreme services to the nation and on whom great hopes are founded Dark slender gentle taciturn he I has already received the war cross and the legion of honor and the following remarkable mention in army orders I A fighting pilot out of the ordinary he gives to all the finest example of energy and abnegation For eleven I months he has served uninterruptedly in his air all squadron has fought ninetyfour ninetyfour ninety ninety- four fights returning frequently with his aeroplane riddled with bullets He Tie has brought down six enemy machines Might Lead the List Since his mention he has had two more victories credited to him The remarkable feature of his case however how how- ever Is that it has been impossible to credit him with more than a part of his victories There is reason to believe believe believe be be- lieve that if all the destructions of Prussian machines accomplished by him could be credited to him on the list of honors he would lead the list by bya a fair margin His Ills work is done far Inside the Prussian Prussian Prussian sian lines with a courage and persistency persistency per per- that are quite unusual This kind of work is especially dangerous and is not profitable from the point of view of honors for machines brought down inside the Prussian lines Unes are not I officially counted as the rules laid down for crediting an aviator with a victory cannot be verified But the patriotic spirit of the young man impels impels impels im im- im- im him to devote himself to di difficult I and perilous work without consideration tion of reward I This mild and amiable young man manof manof manof of twenty-eight twenty a great favorite with the other air fighters who elect him to i the chief honors at all their festive gatherings will not speak of his battIes battles battles bat- bat tIes and leaves the impression of not note having remembered e e them e very pre pre- r But the others he do O not tire of t I telling of Lenoir's bravery and skill as a pilot his unerring ability to maneuver maneuver maneuver ma ma- away from hostile bullets and to become master of his adversary Differently from most of the other air fighters Lenoir was an aviator be before before before be- be fore the war He had learned to loop the loop with and was gaining fame as a pilot when the war began and he joined his cavalry regiment Ho He was a corporal of hussars at the battle of the Marne Mame and had a horse killed under him When he was al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to enter the aviation service he began at once to attract attention by his work A Passionate Hunter lIe He became a terrible and passionately passionately passionately pas pas- eager air hunter It has been said of him that he hunts in the air airas airas airas as men hunt in the jungle He re returns returns returns re- re turns in the evening battered with torn wings ragged like a bad boy He brings down Prussian machines away behind their lines and gets no credit for it His first two officially recognized victories were won at Verdun Then one day while acting as escort to a I bombing expedition a Fokker machine appeared He Tie approached arid and tried to fire but his gun jammed Without hesitating a moment he dived headlong at the Prussian and the latter in terror terror terror ter ter- ter- ter turned and made off and the ex expedition expedition ex- ex continued its work His third and fourth official victims victims vic vie tims fell in one day they were part of a Prussian squadron bombarding the city of le Bar His fifth victory victory vic vie tory was shared with Lieutenant Brin- Brin des The only description obtained from Adjutant Lenoir regarding his air all flights was in connection with his seventh victory This was the first time that I found a German to accept battle he said afterward and the work was rather arduous This avi aviator tor had cour cour- age I had to maneuver to turn around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him to keep him worried to make him tIre fire off his cartridges I I had only forty Finally after ten minutes I got him into the position and he went down Lenoir fills In his time with bombardments bombardments bom horn and reconnaissance work lIe He is a general utility man but of the very first rank in every department Aviators Aviator's Tragis Death The tragic death of Sub Lieutenant des 1 by an accident accident accident acci acci- dent to his machine at the Verdun front again draws attention to the fact that the glories of French mIlitary military mili mill tary aviation are practically all won by new men most men most of them Indeed mere boys The men who made history history history his his- tory in the first years of the control of the air after the late Wilbur Wright in the summer of 1908 had shown in France that the conquest of the air all was finally assured have been relatively little heard of ot In the last eighteen months des the son of an officer in the French army anny was only nineteen years old when on March 23 23 1911 he obtained his diploma as pilot and began the career which willbe will willbe willbe be long remembered for the thrills which he furnished to the public of or many countries In 1013 he lie made the famous tour of leaving Paris in the mornIng morn- morn inc Ing- taking luncheon in Berlin and dinner In Warsaw and then continuing continuing continuing ing to Petrograd Reval Stockholm Stockholm Stock Stock- holm helm Copenhagen The Tie Hague Hague- and Paris He was decorated with the Legion of Honor lIonor and the city of Paris Parish special reception for him h held ld a He lIe performed excellent and assiduous assiduous ous service after the war began and destroyed several German machines but did not succeed in having his name placed on the public roll of honor of the fighting aviators a proof of the contention that the and are geniuses born bern for the special work that France needs ne-eds from them |