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Show Daring American Aviator , Sinks Bolshevik Transport By Attack From Airplane WITH THE POLISH ARMY AT THE FRONT, May IS. j j Confirmation of destruction of a bolsheviki troop ship in the Dnieper river ly an American aviator of the Kosciusko .squadron ! during the Polish Hkrafne drive which resulted in the capture of 1 Kiev wis received by the Polish military authorities.. The Amer- ic.-i credited with this military feat, accomplished single handed. 1 Sis Lieut. (J. M. Crawford, of "Wilmington, Del., a member of the1 Kosciusko squadron of American aviators for nearly a year. The American, in the first attack, swept the ship's decks with his machine gun fire, many of the bolsheviki jumping overboard to .ctscapc tho effect of the incendiary bullets, but the ship did not take fire as the aviator had planned. Again Lieutenant Crawford attacked the vessel, the wings of his airplane being pierced by bullets as he dived and poured his ammunition onto, the decks. He saw a fire break out. Then, circling for altitude io return to camp, the American watched the ship, enveloped in a mass of flames, settle down into the river, while hundreds of soldiers fought for their lives. The ship disappeared dis-appeared soon afterwards according to later reports by members of the Polish arm v. |