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Show U. S. AVIATOR DIESJN PARIS PARIS. April 23. Second Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Dinsmore Ely of Chicago, 111 for rmrly of the La Fayette escadrille. died Sunday irom injuries received in an airplane accident The French government has awarded award-ed the war cross to Sergeant David E Putnam, of Brookline, Mass., a member mem-ber of French escadrille number 156 illiam A. Wellman of Cambridge Mass., of escadrille No. 87 and Phelps Collins of Detroit, a member of the LaFayctte escadrille. Collina was killed on March 23 in an aerial combat-Putnam, combat-Putnam, Wellman and Collins enlisted in the foreign legion early in the war and fought in the trenches. |