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Show Missed Death's Touch by Proverbial Eyelash Who had the closest call In the World wnr? Perhaps it was Cnpt Curtis Barnes, Seventy-eighth division, A. E. F in the Argonne offensive. A machine bullet crashed throuph his tin hat and he was not hit, although it was close enough to take out the left lens of his eyeglasses. Then there Is the case of Cadet Fiske. He was in the observer's cockpit of a Breguet, 10,000 feet over Clermont Ferrand, France, in 1017, during aerial gunnery training, when he was thrown out of the cockpit with the machine gun in his grasp. He was tossed clear six feet De landed flat on his stomach exactly astride of the narrow rear part of the fusilage and managed to work his way back to the cockpit. Then the commanding officer ordered a lot of safety belts. |