The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-02
LIEUT.. LOCKWOOD CAPTURED DURING
 THE LAST BATTLE.
Bridgeport Man Made Il Contact Flights Over Hun
 Lines in France.
BROUGHT DOWN
 THREE TIMES
Escapes From Enemy and Then Fell III of Influenza
 in Own Lines.

Few men in the great world war, no matter what their service, will | have more thrilling tales to tell of | the conflict than Lieutenant Milton K. Lockwood, of 1853 North avenue, l when he returns to his home. Lock l wood was in the aviation corps, and | made eleven contact flights over the | infantry lines, was brought down | three times, was captured once, and | escaped, and then fell ill with influ- 1 enza after returning to his own lines. | He has recovered and will soon re- | turn to duty in Paris. These experiences are told by Lieu 1 tenant Lockwood in a letter to his mother, Mrs. W. M. Lockwood, re | gently received. He says he has no wish to follow the army of occupation into Germany, having had quite enough in the week following his capture and while he was trying to escape. He did escape by disguising himself as a French peasant, and made his way back to the Allied lines. | Lockwood says in his letter that
  more exciting than flying in this country, and after the excitement and risk of battle it looks too tame for him. He will try to obtain duty in Paris where there will be more excite ment than on the front under present conditions. Lieut. Lockwood is a member of the 50th aero squadron, and was the first prisoner to return +1 +1oA 1ione of iGti an h capture having been just 8 week previous.
 T have been called the luckiest man in the United States army" he writes "One thing is that my record has not been equalled. You remem- Der my telling you about the time I was shot down in No Mans Land in September, that I was on infantry contact work, the most dangerous fly ing work there is. Few men live through over four such missions. l have done eleven of them and been shot down three times without a scratch and landed one other time in the barbed wire with engine trouble Oh, I can boast now as the war is over and I am through flying. l told the commanding officer I want a soft job where l can enjoy myself before coming home.
 Mother mine, as I said before, God must have watched over me. have had more thrilling experiences that read like the rankest Action. firmly believe it was your pray ers."
 Telling of his last thrilling fight shortly before the armistice, he writes:
 T was recalled the night before the attack that opened the second battle of the Argonne and sent on
 NA infantry contact patrol work
 during the attack. Everything was lovely for the first four days. But
 on November 4, while out looking for the line at a low altitude we
 flew too low over the German trenches and gas tank and engine
 were both hit by machine guns from
 the ground.
 ''It was my experience of Sept. 29
 repeated, only this time we fell d. rectly into the German territory } just in front of their trenches We , came down absolutely helpless and
 with true Hun manner they never
 stopped UrInS- w ny 1 dIil nOL uedu
 to this day cannot imagine. It wa!
 absolutely point blank and the bull
 lets were crashing into the machint
 after we crawled out. I had abso 1 lutely no hope. It was ust a mat
 ter of seconds, but they were long 7 ones and my only thought was Where will I be hit first?' and { hope they would kill me with the = first shot. But those nearest u , quit shooting and took us prisoner
 instead.
 3 Then commenced the long marcl
 to the rear through their army, alonl
 muddy roads and ruin. I'll never for 3 get that nor the Boche that tried t @ kill us with an axe and was prevent n ed by our guards. We walked bacl
 about 20 kilometres to the Crow A Princes headquarters at Cheher a where we met some Hun aviator IA who are good sports and who gay n us something to drink,
 VI "The German intelligence officer if took us then and brought us to Sc dan in a car to the headquarters o n the third German army and the frs T. of a series of third degree question if ing, I was questioned until il o'clock in the morning, A numbe ,- of close cropped Hun officers sittin g around a stenographer to take dow
 every word"
 On the signing of the armistic
 Lieut.. Lockwood joined some Frenc
 prisoners who were being release
 and made his way back to the line r. at Sedan.