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Show GREAT BATTLES TO BE WON IN AIR NEW YORK. March 30. Sergeant James R MeConnell of North Carolina, the American aviator who, while serving serv-ing as a member of the LaFay ette Es-cadrills, Es-cadrills, was killed behind the Gorman lines in France last week, hoped to Lead a I aited states army aero corps on the French front. In a letter just received here he cave expression to that hope, together with the expe ta-tion ta-tion l hat be and Lieutenant William Thaw would be shifted to the American Ameri-can aviation service if Washington sent a force overseas. The entente aviators are looking for harder aerial fighting this spring, he wrote, because the Germans said the war would be won in the air. |