Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...States Marines, was reported by general Pershing in his communique for May 24. His death was the result of injuries received by the fall of an airplane in which he was acting as observer. He died during the night following the accident, but on that evening he and the pilot with whom he was flying were decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm "for excellent, faithful and courageous work in numerous former flights." Their valor in operating in Seicheprey on April 20, under heavy fire and adverse weather conditions was especially mentioned. Culbert was a former editor...
...soldier of fortune and the incarnation of American dash and spirit. The greatest of the Americans who composed the Lafayette Escadrille, he has been among the greatest aviators in all the armies. Even the French, with their wealth of illustrious names to choose from, have called him "the incomparable pilot." No tribute could mean more than this...
...supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude and you certainly do come down. You fall faster and faster till the wind roars through the wires and the machine shakes and vibrates till you think it is going to fly to pieces and till it throws the pilot hard against the belts...
Colonel Rees pointed out that the "importance of the work of the airplanes lies more in directing the artillery fire and in scouting and photographing than in the actual bombing of enemy trenches and positions." By means of the auxiliary maps which are made of the battlefields a pilot can report to the artillery and infantry a location to an accuracy of ten yards, he stated...
...Chapman (Victor) 124th Aerial Squadron, sergeant pilot in the fighting section, a model of audacity, energy and initiative, and the admiration of his companions of the Squadron, and who, though on the 17th of June seriously wounded in the head, refused to be relieved from duty. A few days thereafter he made a dashing attack upon several aircraft and in the course of the struggle met a glorious death...