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Show LAST FIGHT OF v GREAT AVIATOR PAltlsVsepL" -27: Major Erockard, commander of the "storks," the squad-rilla squad-rilla to which George Guynemer belonged, be-longed, in a statement to the Matin says the last fight of tho sreat French aviator occurred some four or flvo miles inside the German lines nortfi east of Ypres and opposite the British lines. CapLiin Guynemer was accompanied accom-panied by Lieut. Bozon Verduraz, who says that they were flying at a height of 15,000 feet, when Guynemer sighted ' an enemy two-seater, which he nft tacked. Almost at the same moment Verduraz saw four German monoplanes mono-planes approaching at full speed. He turned toward them instantly so as to Uraw them off. They circled round and round for a while and then disappeared. dis-appeared. Verduraz then returned to the place where he had loft Guynemer engaged with the German biplane, but Guynemer had vanished. |