ENEMY ACES ALSO SCORE

Lieutenant Udet of Germany is the ace of enemy aces and holds the record of sixty victories; Captain Brunmwsky of the Austrian forces is next with thirty-four to his credit; Sergeant Fiselier the German flyer serving for Bulgaria is credited with seven victims, and Captain Schults also a German serving for Turkey had eleven victories.

QUENTIN ROOSEVELT LOSES HIS LIFE

On Sunday July 14th, 1918, a violent encounter took place between German battleplanes and American Air forces trying to break through the German defense over the Marne.  In this engagement Lieut, Quentin Roosevelt was brought down and killed near Chambry, then behind the German lines.  He was buried with military honors by German airmen, at the spot where he fell.  His grave was located later by one of his fellow air scouts.

AMERICAN AVIATOR GETS IRON CROSS

One of the remarkable feats performed by Yankee air men, was that of Lieut.  Wm. T. Webb Jr. of Buffalo, a member of an American squadron which encountered a German battleplane while flying over the German lines.  The American flyers surrounded the German Fokker like a flock of birds, and instead of shooting it down, which would have been easy, they maneuvered their planes so the boche machine was forced toward the American lines.  The German airmen fought desperately, but in vain, to break through, and was forced lower and lower to the ground.  Upon reaching the ground he refused to stop his motor until, after bumping over two fields, a bullet was fired through his gas tank setting it afire.  The two Germans jumped from the machine to the ground uninjured.  Both wore iron crosses.  Lieut.  Webb landed his machine, jumped out, grabbed an iron cross from one of the terrified Germans, and rose again to join his companions.

EYES OF THE ARMY ALWAYS OPEN

Few civilians have any idea of the intense, close watch that was kept upon the enemy throughout the struggle.  Soldiers on “listening post” would crawl out every night to and sometimes into the enemy lines and on their return report what they had heard.  By day, aviators came back from flights over enemy positions and gave details of what they had seen.  Every hill, tree-top, church spire, tall building and captive balloon watched every move of the enemy and reported it.  These reports by the ears and eyes of the armies enabled American and allied commanders to plan their infantry and artillery attacks.

AMERICAN INFORMATION SERVICE CHART

Knowledge of conditions in Germany during the war was so accurate that the American general staff had computed many weeks in advance almost the exact date on which the breaking point would be reached.  A chart in Secretary Baker’s office shows the fluctuations in the “morale of the German nation” from August, 1914, to the month of November, 1918.