New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 154
erman planes were shotdown. Lieut. Alexander was severely wounded, a bullet passingthrough his abdomen, but he succeeded in landing safely on hisown field after fainting several times during the descent. He wasawarded the D.S.C. by General Pershing with the following cita-tion: For extraordinary… … ARTHUR HADDEN ALEXANDER enemy battle planes, from Friauville to Lamorville, France. He wasseriously wounded in the abdomen by a machine-gun bullet and his ob-server was shot through both legs. Although weak from pain and loss ofblood, Lieut. Alexander piloted his plane back to his own airdrome…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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