New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 140
st above the wrist. I lost the use of that arm, but I could nt helpbut smile to have my arm over my chest just at that moment. I turned totell Brooke that I was hit and out of ammunition and the gas tank waspunctured. As I turned I saw him put his hand up to his head. NaturallyI thought he had got… … KARL C. PAYNE from about 14,000 to 2000 feet, we could see the infantry below us — and itwas German infantry. Brooke took control of the plane and levelled out,trying to glide without motor to our own lines. However, as soon as welevelled out, the Huns — three of them — caught up with us and the…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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