Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-04-17
AIR ACES Of 8
NATIONS To VISIT
AMERICAN CITIES
YANKEE, FRENCH AND BRITISH
AlRMEn WILL GIVE WONDER
Full DEMONSTRATIONS.
RIDE ON SPECIAL TRAINS
Flying squadron0 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. Demon5tra-
ton Of the flying art as developed
above the battlefields of Europe Win
be given to approximately fifty of the
leading American cities by the most
celebrated aces of the United States,
France and England.
Three flying circuses made up of
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 aero
battles over all the leading American
cities, under the direction of the
Bureau of Publicity of the Victory
Loan organization, Frank R. Wilson,
director. The actual flights will be
under the direction of the military
aeronautics branch of the War De-
partment, with Captain Leon Richard
son in charge.
IN captured Planes.
Fourteen German Fokl1ex planes,
captured by General Pershing'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 all
in flying condition and will be used in
all the demonstrations during the
loan. The best types Of American
planes developed during the war will
be demonstrated to the American PEG
pie to show what has been achieved
as a result of the generous response
to Liberty Loan campaigns.
Among the cities to be visited are
Little Rock, in the Eighth Federal
Reserve District.
A flying squadron made up Of
American, French and British flyers
will tour each Of three districts begin
ming April 10. The eastern tour will |
begin at Mineola, Long Island: the |
middle western tour will begin at New
Orleans, and the far western tour at |
San Diego. Each squadron will be |
carried in special train of eleven |
cars, travelling at night. Nine end
Coor baggage cars will be required 10 |
carry the seventeen airplanes in each |
squadron. Each train VIII be preceded |
by an officer, who will select landing
fields and make arrangements with
local Liberty Loan committees for
the entertainment of the flyers.
Noted Ace IN Squadron.
The names Of the six great British
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 viii
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
q record of 43 victories over German
Another made 179 bomb
ms trips over German lines.
Photographers of the signal corps
VIII 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 follows: 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 off the German planes and
the flyers will give demonstrations of
aerial acrobatics. Parades viii pre-
cede the flights. Citizens will be able
to see the planes unloaded and set up
In the morning and knocked down for
shipment after the flights.
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