New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 80
1stPursuit Group, June 1G, 1918.) (c) On July 5, 1918, Lieutenant Mitchell, near Priez, encountered sixenemy Albatross monoplanes. He attacked the highest one and engagedin a running fight, lasting twenty minutes, which terminated by the Ger-man bursting intoflames. (Confirmed in Operations Report,… … JOHN MITCHELL Citations D.S.C. (awarded Dec. 31, 1919) John Mitchell, Captain, Air Service, 95th Aero Squadron. For extra-ordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, May 27, 1918. Seeingthree enemy planes flying east over Apremont, at 2500 metres, CaptainMitchell unhesitatingly attacked the…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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