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Show Sti..rjge Reunion Two "dead" men shook hands in Melbourne, Australia, recently. "I thought you were dead," said one. "I cpuld have sworn you were killed," the other replied. Their pitviuus iiieei.mg was in uie cocKpii of a fighter over Ypres in 1917. Capt. I. M. Moffat-Pender was pilot and W. T. Smith was observer. A German Ger-man plane dived and put a hole through the gasoline tank. Moffat-Pender Moffat-Pender was wounded, and slumped down on the stick. Smith set the enemy machine on fire. Clambering Clamber-ing along f- fuselage, he pulled back the : . but in a few more seconds th.. crashed. They did not see each other again for 24 years. |