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Show oo-i NEW ENGLAND FLYERA HERO Descendant of Historic Israel Putnam Brings Down More Airplanes. PARIS, Tuesday, March 19. David E. Putnam, of Brookllne, Mass., a descendant de-scendant of Isreal Putnam and a member mem-ber of the LaFayctto flying squadron, has just brought down two moro German Ger-man airplanes. Putnam also has been promoted to tho rank of sergeant in the French army. Ho already has the war cross with palms. On tho afternoon of March -1 Aviator Putnam attacked three Albatross monoplanes, mon-oplanes, bringing down one and putting put-ting the others to flight. The next day he attacked two, two-seated machines, one of which crashed to the ground in flames. In each case Putnam was alono on patrol duty. This makes four machines with which Putnam is officially credited although al-though he brought down a fifth machine ma-chine on a German airdrome. This was not seen by French observers and, therefore, was not officially, credited. |