Arizona republican., 1919-02-17
WRITES OF SEEING
 FRANK LUKE SHOOT
 DOWN ENEMY PLANES

Telling of his experiences in France and Germany, and of seeing one of Frank Luke's aerial battles Private Sterling w. Fulton recently wrote to Mir Sanford Denny of the Goldman company. where he was formerly em- ployed. The letter follows:
 Mir Sanford Denney.
 Phoenix. Ariz, Care Goldmans
 Grocery company.
 Friend MT. Denney:
 What do you know about this. MT. Denney. l am now a few miles rom the Rhine river and in Germany at that, but am billetted in a swell little town on the Moselle river and there's plenty of ancient scenery here, castles. etc, and all the natives wear the Made in Germany sign on their faces. They sure treat us swell and the soldier that can talk German is c. K. and at pres ent we have our infirmary in a swell house with all the furniture made of walnut wood, and we sure have swell beds. l sleep in one most every night. They are much different beds than ours and most all of the homes have their kaiser's picture on the wall. But all of this dope may sound good on paper but it does not help me fight the ''cooties." We have a battle on at all times. They are very small but are the most interesting things that l have seen since being ''oVer, except the Dutchman, and can say he sure kept me interested while on the front, argu- ing with him, trying to induce him to drop back to Germany.
 I am here to say l do not want to play war any more. Mr. Denny l have had plenty. The first time on the front. l being in battle was a curiosity. but after that l wanted to quit and the more I went over the top the less 1 thought of their European game and l the more l thought of the dear old state of Arizona. But they wouldn't can" me so l had to stick, but as I | didn't get a scratch doing my bit as q first aid man, and as the war is now | over. l figure I am better off than if i | had joined the c. Ms.
 Say. l have seen towns of interest | plenty of countries. such as England ! France. Germany. sure saw plenty Of ! France and some parts of this coun- ! try and one thing l do know. that | everything came my way for three months at these places: Chateau 1 Theiry, Nesle river and at Verdun. Iu the Argonne Woods and also at St Mihiel, and if l missed seeing anything do not know what it was but per
 haps will Vlen we get to Russia.
 guess we. are going there. At present
 am trying to marry a Dutch girl so
 can settle down for a while.
 Well MT. Denny I saw Frank Lux,
 or Phoenix battle with a bunch of Ger.
 man aviators and he brought one larg,
 bombing and one scout plane down ant
 ne sure did wonderful work all kind,
 n uff ar nd I,.F e..
 40 minutes. The battle was one of tn,
 pretuest and the bravest fights 1 say
 Tn me air and can say have seen lot
 of them. It took place few miles fra,
 Nerdun on or about September 15. The
 tried most every conceivable way tI
 get away from Luke but Luke plave,
 me game. l also saw him burn d Ger
 man observation balloon. Now nj } doubt. you wonder how knew who h } was, lOOO feet in the air. Well. afte : the airplane fight, he flew to in l ground to fix his machine. near on , division. and our ambulance driver went to him and had a long talk an I ne told them his name and where h
 was rom, so when they came back f
 Sne llrst aid station they told us. Tn
 New York Herald. printed in Paris ha
 d nis Wrlteup Tn it about what Luk nau uohe on a certain date, and o
 what front. so you can see know
 ilttie about what he did and am sorr
 ne hsd the accident he did on Septem s can say I made good on the iron n put did not try for any medals nc | was a daredevil. No, I looked afft
 wounded men and myself and am yer 5 lucky to be here ,ow.
 n Yours respectfully
 " PRIVATE STERLING W FIrTTO,