| Show YANK AVIATOR MAKES miraculous ESCAPE FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP CAM tennessee boy swims the rhine to swiss soil after days of tramping through enemy country seventy americans in concerted effort to escape from prison three oct get through swiss give them kindly welcome in arance seventy americans lit in the prison camp nt at Vil villinger villingen lingen ferniany hindu it desper tile ante nil conceited attempt to escape ou on the fit night lit of sunday Sund iii october 0 so tar far three nun men have crossed the hir birder der the ihn list first Is 14 aviator ceorge wright of memphis term tann par eat diun across tile to soil early lit in tile the morning morn liiK of october 11 hi two to days later inter clarold willis of bloston a fortner lafayette escadrille IKI flyer who 10 lo was MH captured nt at Ver iliin in august 1017 ind and naval Ed edoliard ollard of portsmouth va in 0 geared into awl only it fey few days on oil oc lc tild 1 0 aliu hist first Amer lenh boldrer to escalo front froin it german 1 I prison pilson camp into switzerland ilir rived tit nt lied cross lit in berne lie ho wan frigic of in ill it 11 american lio enlisted it tc few days nt tri hin erlen declared war ni pur lins 3 q it nr r if tilo first american allicer to tn es capo front f loin germany on oil june 20 23 while lille patrolling near ville ru u fort about eliout four lillo 1110 maers foam fo tM ost of fore on oil tarde luide piu engaged ed till 1111 eneany baft chino lit iti co com nihat luit the fight carried blin unawares into the german line puryear shot flown don lili ills adver adversary gary mortally wounding the of me german gern nn machine seeing onu offo of liti 1114 adversaries was ns badly aind believing in ili allied territory descended intending to ro re move moe one or 01 botti both of tile the aviators nilo tors laiq n arl others to till nn american hospital such slid descents in filled territory to ald aid tt a badly wounded adversary havo been a part of tile ho knightly code of the or captured by germans I 1 upon hinding und find before lie hf could burn ills machine puryear was cup cat tilled by german troops 0 who o were coq in lil hiding dIng the iho geranan pilot of the ilia lie he lind had descended to carry to a hospital insisted that lie ho bo shot nt at once for ut tit a wounded nuin ninn the ib observer server of the german plan after ills capture puryear vis taic oil en to it n hospital which was also tin nn intelligence examining post iio yam is kept there for three hours houri from the llie hospital puryear was ai taken to a ells cis tie eliere lie ho was uis again examined by un I 1 next day lie was tins nairn alone ten felt kilometers behind tho lines to another Intelli genco post where lie was tani once more examined on the following tiny with alth fifteen captured americans of the lie sixth adli slon anti and about french soldiers lie ho wits take to 1110 kt at each stop intelligence officers e ex him on oil august 2 puryear was take to Ila prison plon calup on oil august 5 lie escaped etli ath andro andre con beati a french aviator august 6 and 7 they spent lit in the woods at 5 a in ill olathe on alie morning of august 8 however they ran into a german sentinel they were cro taken under guard to kohl where liero thoy they were given it good meal two guards tiled alien 5 back to Ite filere aur year car wits ns imprisoned lo live 10 days later when ihen lie ite wait to puryear served nine little more days of the lie fourtson tou itten day sentence imposed on oil him for trying to escape makes break for liberty on oil august 13 puryear Ii irenr wits trans berred to thu climp for nil all prisoners where lero ho he ban od until august 10 11 ile iio was n eliell taken to Lauth quit on oil a closely kunal ed iraln together with alth it of if Ili il flying aviators tori at iho file british anti ovia aviators tors tere aiu the annil cm cans were phie edin in n ca camp 1 III imil been used us its it 1 ille annii anil and they wore L vaccinated vaccina ted tY choleric cho lerit arld smallpox was kept lit front froin august HI 21 to tn september 1 14 1 during lils ills stay iny lie applied for it transfer to Vil villinger villingen lingen where it number of amerl call pilots were confined lie ile was removed there on fin september 15 after nine days lit in jall tit nt villinger villingen Vil lingen puryear ans reli six days litter later oil tin the night of amiday sunday 9 october 0 pur por your made his second M cond und successful lleces srul to escape lilt had planned to escaip with ono other oilier companion aviator willis however asked blin to if postpone hla atten attempt qt for several days an am it a dozen us lis lind had been planning to es cs cape for hoine thim tint and it was feared chilt it if year failed fiill ril the general break olit light be b nip tile bud binl and ills companion agreed and preparations were matle for the lie ecjpe c were mado ready win will dus dows find burs bars cut out find one Ain vOcal inadi it to circuit alio llio lie string ati lait of powerful electric lights 1 tile pilon callip alad alil cli burned nil fill night to lo tin tnt vilt escapes the jall delivery wn w i I 1 1 1 I 1 1 nod for sundie flight nl lit find the 1 ae l bealls tweed to bronk brenk out nt fit philes so us its to keep the guards lisiy at 1030 sunday night tha ali guards turned out tile lights lit in thu the prison clini lt this was tile signal for nil all the mell indi to wake their alual preparations at 1045 the lights outside the prison enina anti were short circuited by one of the americans from three sides of the barracks bin nicks tho the AmP american rIcan aviators and prisoners pil nindo ninde their dash for liberty fired on by guards immediately the guards 11 blew iv their whistles and cocked their guns surrounding the barracks was a low barbed wire alro fence and beyond that a deep ditch with barbed wire entanglements entangle ments lit in it still further was it 11 ten foot fence with hooks books facing inward along tile the top outside this rence fence wore were the lie guards guarda with rilles ralles alting puryear ru isaacs willis tin and their companions lilt lind to run this gantlet after getting through the barred windows of the barracks alii lie penalty nalty of being abeln caught in the wire was death only a few days day before jill in Megen cral breakout n R hus lind hall been caught lit in the wire and instantly killed puryear ell climbed bed over all obstacles and tint put ills ladder til ill against the fence As lie ion leaped veil over the fence firing faring began ills companion had biad ills foot on tile lower round of the bidder its as puryear pill year went over once outside tile barracks puryear found himself between betwee ll two guards both shouted at biffin to halt strictly according to orders they shouted sli throe three times to him to stop six ail shots were fired in nil all point blank sit nt puryear Pury the guards ginn ds however were vere old and their aim was bad at tile little they fired lard was 20 feet oly off and the other CO 50 feet uway just as tile tic cond volley was wa m irad fired ai at him puryear stumbled and fell lit in it ditch lie he believes lie ho would have been M or killed by these cliot bilota i if ie lilt had not hot fallen As had been previously arranged puryear waited nt at it prearranged point for jim his companion when the lio latter did not arrive after 15 ini minutes waiting puryear went alone while lie ho waited vai led begird tile guards lire fire several score roll lic III had now recovered ills him strength find mado made good progress that flight lie went 15 kilometers carefully rate fully guarded ills his red |
