The courier-index., 1919-04-18
AIR AGES IF l
 NATIONS TO VISIT
 AMERICAN CITIES. 
YANKEE, FRENCH AND HHiTisH : A,RMEN WILL GIVE WONDER FIJI DEMONSTRATIONS.
RIDE ON SPECIAL TRAINS
Flying squadrons to Be Seen in St.
 Louis, Louisville, Memphis and Little Rock.

The greatest flying program the United States has ever witnessed will be offered in connection with the com ing Victory Liberty Loan. DemonstrS ton of the flying art M developed above the bsttlehelds of Europe wan be given to approximately fifty Of tAs leading American cities by the most celebrated aces of the United States, France and England.
 Three flying circuses made up oi American. French and British aviators and flying American planes and cap tured German Fokker planes will tour the United States. giving aerial sham battles and performing aerial acro- battles over all the leading Amenoaa cities. under the direction of the Bureau of Publicity Of the Victory Loan organization. Frank R. Wilson director. The actual Aights will b. under the direction of the military aeronautics branch of the War Ds- partment, with Captain Leon Richard. son in charge. aTv~,
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 Fourteen German Fokher planes, captured by General Pcvshins's mon. have landed at Newport News and will be shipped at once to Washington and turned over to the Treasury Depart ment for the period of the loan cam paign. These German planes are au in flying condition ana will be used in ell the demonstrations during the loan The best types of American planes developed during the war VIII be demonstrated to the Amepfoan po@ pie to show what has been achieved as . result of the genersvs rssDonss to Liberty Loan campaigns.
 Among the cities to be vtsked Avs Little Rock. in the nishth Federal Reserve District.
 A flying squadron made up of American, French and British nys0s will tour each of three districts hssin- ming April 10. The s~sesrn tour NSil begin at Mineola. Loae Issand eAs middle western tour VII hsotn ah New Orleans. and the far western tour at San Diego. Each squadron will bs carried in special train 1 esswsn, cars. travelling at night Nine end door baggage cars will be required tol carry the seventeen airplsDes in each squadron. Each train will be preceded by an officer, who will select iandingI fields and make arrangements with local Liberty Loan committees for the entertainment of the flyers
 Noted Ace In squsdron.
 The names of the six great British l flyers are not yet known However the United States government has been informed by the British govern ment that six of the best British flyers developed during the war will be here in time for the tours. The delegation of eight French flyers has already left France for the United States. One of the French flyers has . record of 4S victories over German adyersaries. Another made 17s bomb ing trips over German lines
 Photographers of the. signal corps will accompany each squadron They will take war photographs of each of the American cities visited. The gen eral program to be followed in each city visited will be as foIlows: Two American scout planes will rise and drop Victory Loan literature over the city. Four German planes will then attack those two American planes in the air. Four American planes will then drive of the German planes and the flyers will give demonftrationa of aerial scrobatics Parades will pre- cede the nishts. Citizens will be able to see the planes uDioaded and set up in the morning and knocked down for shipment after the nights.