New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 26
organized Lafayette Escadrille, where hebegan those heroic exploits in the air that eventually won for himthe title of American Ace of Aces. From this time on his success was rapid. On July 30, 1916, hebrought down his first plane, over Etain, and a week later van-quished another; these successes… … RAOUL LUFBERY he has had with enemy aeroplanes. On July 30 he unhesitatingly attackedat close range a group of four enemy machines. He shot one of them downnear our lines. Succeeded in bringing down a second on the 4th of Aug.,1916. A third plane was brought down in flames a few days later,…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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