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Show (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) LUKE FOUGHT HIS OWN WAR Young Lieutenant'6 Devotion Uvea on In Sister Now Cheering Ex-Soldiers In Hospitals. Frank Luke's devotion to duty lives on in the character of his sister. The -srwi&i. American ace who jp 80 gallantly gave f v)v'' '''s life one day in V ' the early autumn I " - 1 of 1018 found the - Jl same Joy in serv-Sit serv-Sit ce to his country that Anna Marie j T Luke now finds v I In -serving ex-sol- 'ii5 iUers ln tlie hos J 'f," Pitals of Phoenix, "21 4 ? Ariz. Her songs ever veterans are quartered, nnd her popularity at the American Legion post, which bears her brother's name, is often remarked. Further honor was recently paid the memory of Lieutenant Luke when the Italian Croce dl Guerre was awarded him posthumously. The cross, with a certificate of award signed by General Diaz, is now ln possession of the late officer's family, together with a Congressional Con-gressional Medal of Honor, a Distinguished Distin-guished Sendee Cross with oak leaf cluster, and several minor decorations. The lieutenant was one of the best known and most picturesque flyers ln any army. Work- , Ing for the most 0!TZh. part without or- f . ders, he practi- f cally fought his t, . -3 own war. He , i would load up with bombs, fly J far back into Ger- ' v man territory, . t tnke on any odds t 3 that happened to I 'f fall to him, and w y " A work destruction WfuLJi wherever he went. Known by reputation to every man ln the A. E. F., he represented all that was romantic in modern warfare. He fell In action with enemy airmen near Murvaux, after a forced landing of his plane. He had previously shot down three German balloons while un der terrific fire from ground bntteries. |