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Show BRILLIANT WORK OF TWO AMERICANS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. April 14. (By The Asso-ited Asso-ited Press.) Two German fighting planes were shot down this morning aside the American lines by Lieutenants Lieu-tenants A. S. Wipslow of Chicago and Douglas Campbell of California. Each man downed one machine. Both the enemy aviators were made prisoners. One of them was slightly wounded. The machines, which formed part of patrol of five aircraft, were brought down -after a six-mmute engagement. One of the enemy machines fell in flames, but the other was only slightly slight-ly damaged. It is believed that Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Campbell is the first graduate jof a strictly American school to bring down an enemy machine. The American aviators were en-i en-i camped when the enemy machines were signalled as crossing the line Fifteen minutes later the American pilots sighted the enemy machines and immediately engaged them Both the captured machines were placed on exhibition in the public square of a town behind the American j lines, where they were viewed by ! thousands of persons who came from miles around. The French general commanding the zone in which the machines were shot rlown congratulated the Americans on their "beautiful exploit." Both lieutenants wore awarded the war cross. rr |