Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
A|RMEN TO STAGE
CARNIVAL BATTLES
Army Air Corps to Assemble
Its Crack Detachments
Here This Week.

in the National Capital will feature the
annual military exposition and carnival
at Washington Barracks Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
In addition to combat formation fly
ing by IS Army planes of all types,
there will be aerial dog fights" between
two of the greatest Army pursuit pilots
the country has produced.
The Army Air Corps will bring to
this city from all parts of the United
States crack attachments from its pur-
suit. bombardment and attack squad
rons and will stage an aerial demon
stration exceeding even that given by
the Air Corps during the recent ma
tional air races in Cleveland. the great
est all-round flying show the country
has seen.
All Sc planes are to be in the air at
once eacn day, passing in review before
the stands in formations of the various
types. Full combat operations in which
all types of planes will demonstrate
their various functions in actual war
fare will be held.
Sensational CombatS.
Perhaps the most sensational feature
OF the aerial program will be aerial
combatS between Lieut.. James H. Doo-
little and Capt. Frank CD. Hunter, re-
garded as two of the Nations finest
Army pursuit pilots.
Lieut.. Doolittle was one of the indi-
vidual stars of the Cleveland air races.
He Joined the mythical Caterpillar
Club there. saving his life by resorting
to his parachute. after he had torn the
wings off his pursuit plane in a scream
ing vertical power dive. An hour later
not in the least daunted by his narrow
escape, he repeated the dive in front
of the grandstands, to open one Of The
Nrril Il Df hot
during the 10 days of the races.
Lieut.. Doolittle was winner of the
SCHNEIDER Trophy Race. the worlds
premier speed event, in 1925, when he
flew 232 miles per hour over the in
ternational course at Baltimore, Md
He is credited with being the first pilot
to, fly the famous outside loop feat
which had been considered impossible
up to the time he performed it,
Capt. Hunter, who will be Lieut..
Doolttle's opponent in the aerial dog
fights, was one of this country's lead
ing aces during the World War. lie
was decorated time and again for
achievements at the front which testify
to remarkable courage and fighting
ability
In one instance. when attacked at
a disadvantage by five enemy pur-
suit planes. he drove two of them down
and routed the three others. Capt.
Hunter is second degree" member
of the Caterpillar Club, having resorted
to the parachute twice to save his life.
He has come through several crashes,
one of which sent him to the hospital
for several months.
Other Famous Pilots.
In addition to Hunter and Doolttle.
the Air Corps will send other famous
pilots into the air this week. among
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one of the most noted navigation and
instrument experts in the service:
Lieut.. Lester j. Maitland, who. with
Hegenberger made the first transpa-
cif1c flight from the United States to
Hawaii, and Maj. Ralph Royce, COM
mandant of the First Pursuit Group.
Selfridge Field, Mich.
The Air Corps will put on series
of startling demonstrations of night
flying during the exposition. Pursuit
planes, outlined with electric lights,
will go through aerial acrobatics ana
there will be aerial combats between
planes and between planes and anti
aircraft batteries. The climax of the
night flying will be the simulated
a, stunt which has been carefully
worked out by Army pilots.
Sergt. York's Feat.
The big feature of the ground ex-
position will be the re-enactment of
the routing by Sergt. Alvin M. York,
Tennessee mountaineer, of a machine
gun battalion of the crack Prussian
Guard and his capture. almost single
handed, of So enemy machine guns and
1872 prisoners. This will be part OF a
sham battle, Smashing Through the
Argonne," in which all branches of
the Army will participate.
The Army will bring together at the
exposition Sergt York and all of the
survivors of his heroic mission, culmi-
mating in what the late Marshal Ferdi-
nand Foch, allied commander-in
referred to as 1.-The greatest exploit of
any private soldier in the allied armies"
Those present at the great military
show will be: Sergt. Harry M. Parsons,
the man who sent York on his mission;
Sergt. Bernard E. Early who was in
command of the patrol. Corpl. William
B. Cutting, who was also wounded, and
Pvts. Percy Beardsley, Joseph Ko-
notski Patrick j. Donohue and George
w. Wills.
There will also be present at the show
Capt. E. C. B. Danforth, Yorks COM
pany commander; Maj. G. Edward Bux-
ton, jr.. who was battalion commander
of York's outfit; Lieut.. Col. Richard
Wetherill. who was reginental COM
mander of the 328th Infantry at the
time, and Maj. Gen. George B. Duncan,
commander of the 82d Division (Yorks
division) in the Argonne.
This will be the first time there has
ever been reunion of all these men.
Program on the Air.
The National Broadcasting Co. will
put the first days program on the air
over a Nationwide radio chain, and will
bring to this city. as announcer, Floyd
Gibbons, noted war correspondent and
writer, who went all through the World
War as correspondent, losing an eye
In the Argonne fighting.
Gov Harry F. Byrd of Virginia will fly
to this city Thursday to assist in OPEN
ing the exposition. Accompanied by his
staff, he will fly here from Richmond in
an Army tri-motored Fokker transport
plane. He will be escorted to the re-
ception tent by troup of the 3rd
Cavalry from Fort Myer.
Tickets for the military exposition and
carnival, which is for the Army relief
places: General admission and reserved
seats, New Willard. Mayhower and
Wardman Park Hotels and the Amer
lean Automobile Association; regular
admission, the Army and Navy Club.
Drops music store, Thirteenth and G
streets; the Peoples drug stores at
Fourteenth street and Park road, Eight
zenith street and Columbia road, $3.50
Connecticut avenue, Fifteenth and @
streets, Seventh and streets and
Thirty-first and M streets, and at the
Central Y. M. c. A, Seventeenth and G
streets.
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