New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

/ this time Garros emptied three belts
! into hi, enemy, who fell "riddled like
I q sieve"
/ at would be useless to write you Of
| my satisfaction writes Garros. 1t
I was complete success despite a
rather sickenng spectacle at the end.
am the only man who has fought
without an observer: ! have been
pilot. observer and gunner in one.
But what makes me hsppicst is the
! feeling that ! have myself created, in
/ spite OF all the risks of the unknown
! in aviation, the instrument which
I brought me success"
| Most of the famous Aces, Guynemer,
Navarro, Nungcsscr, and others of the
/ famous squadrons \. 65 and y. 3, won
/ through to their fifth victory before
[ the highly specialized avion de chase,
or fighting plane, had been developed.
They went out on their appointed err
rands, to spot for artillery. TO take
photographs. 20 drop bombs on a mu-
milton dump behind the German lines.
/ Observation was carried out at ] 800
yards and combats took place in full
sight Of the troops in the trenches.
The two scatter, which can rise TO-.
900 feet in less than ten minutes, was
still a thing of the future and aerial
battles, as such. had not begun.
Actual lighting was always an incident
10 the major operations. a7d -" Noes
who tell their experiences, those on
which they love to dwell, usually
make only The most casual references
TO single combat.
Take Toll for Every Death
The credit for developing Sighting
sQuadrons goes TO y. SO and y. 3, the
former being exactly ore year Younger
than the war itself. Il is this esca-
drlle which possesses the happy
memory of blowing an Aviatjk into
the French lines. q complicated and
dangerous process. chiefly depending
on skill in manpuvrc, so that the ter
rife force of the propeller continually
throws the enemy out of control and
forces him 10 land.
In n. 65 the esprit de corps Is nat
urally a spirit OF vengeance, and when
one Of The squadron fell on the field
of honor every member Of the squad
ron vowed TO bring down q German
Tor payment.
The next day after Billot's death
NunGcSscr shot down a Fokker. he
next dag Navarro came from neigh
boring squadron TO pay his last re-
sTects 20 BOillOt and shot down an
other German in flames. On the fol
lowing day Captain Fequant OF the
squadron offered third victim TO the
shade of his departed Aier
And later, in one day Nungesser
made what one OF his companions
calls a "magnifcent gift to the Ger
mans. He sent down 20 them, in one
morning. two of their own planes and
saucage balloon, all in flames.
In two years n. 80 has fought 1000
I battles in the air and has registered
/ at least 10 per cent absolute victories,
/ with perhaps another per cent prob
| able. The glory OF y. 3, the immor-
| tai "Storks,' is in Guynemer, the
modest youth who lets other people
; talk for him. OGuynemer is reported
missing, and probably dead, since this
article was written.-Ed.) One of the
4 members of n. 8 spoke TO ME of the
/ early days, when Guynemer was so
nearly driven away from the gates.
you should have seen him, Ell? A
STRIPPING Of nineteen who knew how
/ to Ay and insisted. He was Just from
| the Lycec, he had been rejected four
/ times, but he insisted and he came 10
/ Pau to the aerodrome. En-. bicn. they
! let him in at last and ! will tell you
what he did. | went up with him
once. after we were both aces. TO get
some photographs. because I under
stand photography. And the last thing
he said 10 me was. old fellow. | give
/ YOU warning. To-day ] dodge no
/ shells. To-day is my anniversary
/ We'll, We went up and they recog-
] pt8aA hin, fbnyr ai, IL L
! flies like no one else in the world
Never have heard such cracking Of
| shells. They started in a big circle
all around US and came renro" ~-i
nearer, but he did not move. On the
course he kent and took photo.
/ graphs. At las I report that / have
| enough. bat no. he asks me 10 take
I some photographs, Of the puffy clouds
around our plan. And when that is
: done he starts one, but turns again
and does a spin 90 not know how
many times, riCh, or one Of the bat
teries which had been looking for us.
in the line they thought he was crazy.
"But knew well enough that Guv-
nemer was paying US out for hi, early
days when we dared to patronizc
/ him"
Unlike most Aces, Guynemer does
not believe that he bears charmed
/ life. His only hope is that he will
I not be brought down in German terri
/ tory. lie was.l
Had Three Planes Destroyed
Sergeant Major =. Of Squadron --
/ believes in his star, and his record is
/ some justification. He has fought end
lessly in the air and has gone through
:.
/ ment. At present he is engaged in
| spotting for artillery. In a converse
tion he spoke of a particular adventure
! IN which he used three planes, and
! When | asked for il, he promised TO
! write II out for me. Here is the larger
part of his story
"The Boche had been watering us
with cursed battery for four days al
NJ. II was bad enough for him TO
get our billets in the town, but when
! he began 10 strike down old women and