New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 72
a Major with me and first thing his gun jammed. That putit up to me; so I went in hell bent for election. I manoeuvred as much aspossible so his machine-gunner could nt shoot at me, and let him have it.I shot two hundred and sixty rounds into him. I followed him all the wayto his airdrome, killing… … RICHARD ASHLEY BLODGETT anti-aircraft would get me, as I was very low, but they did nt even shootat me. I ran out of gas just after re-crossing the lines into France and theythought surely I had been brought down, until I telephoned in. It was apretty exciting game. Most of our work is far back of…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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