New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 50
I fiddledwith it and it picked up, and I staggered back home on a level with theobservation balloons. Our Squadron now has a record of 22 Bodies, with only five losses. . . .More than four to one. In a letter dated Sept. 17, 1918, he wrote of the offensive: Our quiet sector has been turned into an… … HUGH BRIDGMAN capped in our particular line of trade by nasty weather, clouds so low wehad to hop the hedges (almost) to fly at all, and squalls of rain every tenminutes. There was a strong wind, too. Dawn of the offensive, I went out alone, more to satisfy my curiositythan to fight, as there were…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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