New Britain herald., 1916-08-25
NAVARRE DARE DEVIL
 OF FRENCH AIRMEN
And He Worries Officers Almost
 As Much As Germans

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
 Paris, Aug. 15.--ScCOnd Lieutenant Jean Navarro of the French flying corps, has just been officially credited with destroying his tenth German ma chine. UnOf1ictally, he has brought down eighteen; that is to say that, in addition to the ten machines, destruc- tiOn of which has been verified by his superior officers he is known to have sent eight more to earth behind the German lines under circumstances that justify the supposition that they were destroyed.
 Navarro is the "enfant terrible" or pest, of the French flying corps, with eccentricities that keep his superior officers busy. He had seen most of the world at IS, and had just disem- parked from Japan and taken a few lessons in aviation when the war broke out. Too young to be called to the cOlorS regularly, he enlisted and was summoned to appear for medical examination; instead Of responding, he took the train for Saint-Cyr, and told the officers there that he had
 been ordered to report to join the en-
 gincors. Together with @ cOmrade that
 had received pilots license, he ap- piled to an officer of the flying corps at Tours to be incorporated in that service. The captain examined the papers of the real aviator and passed him; then asked Navarro: what do you Want?' 'Samc as hc,' repned l Navarro, and without further for { mality Navarro found himself on an l SO-horsc power biplano at the front | regulating tho fire of the artillery in l November, 1914. It was a service that
 was little suited to his disposition; he ! called 1t Thriving a taxi-auto," and 1 showed his disCOntent by some fan l tastic eVOlutiOns on returning from l an observation tour, that resulted in 1 his being sent to the rear. He pre- l sentcd himself at the aviation camp l where men were being trained to fly I the swift battle planes and was given 1 an opportunity to try one of them. His natural qualities as an acrobat of the | air got him immediately one of these new machines.
 ! He made his debut in the chase in l March, 1915, and in his first expedi- 1 ton atta cked ono of the German ma
 chimes that was tho most redoubtablc
 at that time, by his skill as a pilot 1 alone dominating his adversary. He flew over him, lOoped the loop under
 him, sailed all around him, risling a dozen times to collide with him, yet
 never giving the German observer a chance to fire. The German machine finally went to earth a few yards from
 the French lines without having been hit or damaged in any way; the Ger man pilot had lost his head in the | presence of the fantastic cvolutiOnS of his adversary and could only inquire
 after being made prisoner: What in
 the world is that phenomenon that fell 1 l has flown successively in all the diff | ferent machines in the French avia- 1 tiOn service, mastering them all with | equal ease and skill and never failing l to charge an enemy wherever he | found him. His theory of the aerial | combat is to go at his man, drive 1 right at him regardless of the enemy's fire, paying attention only to his own. Up to date. Navarro has waeed , nearly fifty air battles.
 great many anecdotes are told of