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Show U. S. AVIATORS MAKINGRECORO Fifty-Eight Americans Officially Offic-ially Credited With Downing Down-ing One to Five Planes. WTTW THR A TX?Tir A XT T.lr-,r t FRANCE. Aug. 19. (By the Associated Press) Statistics covering the activities activi-ties of the first American pursuit group of aviators up to August 1, comprising com-prising only four of the American squadrons, show the strides made by American aviators. The figures show that fifty-eight aviators are officially credited with downing anywhere from one to five planes. Seventeen machines were credited to the late Raoul Lufbery. In actual numbers the German machines ma-chines downed total fifty-nine, exclusive exclus-ive of those of Lufbery, but they aro divided officially among nearly twice that number of men because on numerous num-erous occasions several fliers participate partici-pate In a battle. The aviators with five victories each are: Lieutenants Campbell, RJckcn-backer, RJckcn-backer, MasArthur, O'Neill; those with four each are: Captain Peterson, Lieutenant Mcissncr; those with three each are Lieutenants Mitchel, O. P Porter, Simonds, Jones and Healv" Fourteen others have two victories each, and thirty-two more, including the late Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt are credited with ono each. These figures do not Include the records of other squadrons which have been even moro successful. American Aviator Interned THE HAGUE, Aug. 19 Don Ryon Harris of Afton, N. C, the American airman who made an involuntary descent des-cent Friday in a potato field near Koudekerk, Zeeland, after his machine I had been disabled by German anti- aircraft gunfire, has arrived here from Flushing to be interned. Harris, who was uninjured, ascended ascend-ed somewhore in northern France with a Scotchman, James Munroe' and was busy dropping bombs on tho Bruges docks from an altitude of 13,000 feet when a shell splinter hit his machine In a vital part. The motor worked so poorly that the aviators calculated it would be impossible for them to make Nieuport, their first home base. Neither Nei-ther were injured. |