Show FRANCE HAS NEW AIR DAREDEVIL former cavalryman performs astonishing feats of valor with aeroplane IS MANY TIMES DECORATED pronounced permanently disabled after smashup smash up he steals machine and goes forth to new deeds of heroism inels nungesser the latest airman to be revealed to us ns as a prince among pilots is a great big heavy fellow fat faced and cumbersome nt nf build lie ile was a cavalryman in the second Ilus hussary hussars sars when ben he started ills his career and the war was not B p month old before ile he distinguished himself ills squadron was cut clit off and surrounded in the retreat from charleroy charleroi Charl Char crol leroi the troop commander WM was lying helpless badly wounded nungesser bort bore him to shelter getting ft a few lers together lie ambushed a german staff motor car killed its occupants occupant put his wounded officer inside and taking inking the wheel set off on a wild dath through the lines the car was a powerful mors and the way ser let her all out and tore tj through the whole ranks of germans earnha for him the epithet of dash to death nungesser was subsequently pro quartermaster awarded the th military medal and permanently appointed army chauffeur takes to flying nungesser later handed in his es ignation Ign atlon and declared that unless tie lie was put into the flying corps lie he would take ills his place in the trenches lie al ready had a pilots ticket and after a week or two of training was passed as good for military aviation between april and august 1015 1915 he took part in 53 bombarding espell eions three of which secured him fresh mentions in dispatches returning from the last lie he espied a germah dermat albatross over nancy went for it tie d spite the handicap of his bis heavy slow machine insufficiently armed tor for single combat and shot down the invader this achievement brought him into prominence and lie he was promoted to the crack chasing corps before the end of the year he had been made chevalier of the legion of honor A side elde slip at due bue however when trying a new type of machine almost cost him his life he was picked up for dead with a fractured skull a broken J jaw w nearly all his ribs broken the muscles of the legs torn away nungesser refused to accept the doctors decision that he was permanently disabled he declined to take thre months on convalescence it if he ever wanted to be of any use again and almost cs a machine he be soared aloft and never came down until he had accounted for a german aeroplane given his own way after this he was waa allowed to have his own way he could scarcely talk owing to the necessity of binding up his jaw his lend head was swathed la in bandages he had to be lifted in and out of ills his aeroplane but he was a perfect demon once aloft ile he then became a sub lieutenant this was at the end of march and the beginning of april last on april 25 he engaged single handed three fekkers Fok kers brought down one and gave the others n severe bevere mauling A week later he be was swooped down upon by a flotilla of six fekkers Fok kers ile he had one down before thoy they could get his range almost and then sailed at full speed right into the midst of the others they vs were ere unable to fire tor for fear of hitting one another whereas he pounded them hard until lie he had not a shot left then by masterly airmanship he showed them a clean pair et f heels they were in such a state that they did not dare follow him which was lucky tor for he had not gone a mile or two before his b engine went all to pieces seven balls had gone through it and only a couple of cylinders but bad any go in them ile he had dropped to under feet and was limping lamely as he be crawled back over the tb german trenches i the storm of shells missed him all the same and lie he made home safely one shot had gone through his helmet and grazed the top of ills his head bead another had carried away the heel of his slipper clipper 27 had struck the plane and done various kinds hinda of da damage ins ge without counting those in the engine |