First World War Ace Visits a Schoolboy

First World War Ace Visits a Schoolboy

   SIOUX CITY, Iowa — (AP) A Belgian fighter pilot of World War I fame, paid a visit to a teenage youth here as a result of correspondence between the two in connection with the youth's hobby of learning about early aircraft and their pilots.
   Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, now in his mid-70's, spent a week visiting 15-year-old Bill Felton III and his family. The high school sophomore had written to the ace in his effort to find out all he could about World War I planes. Baron Willy is known in aviation circles for his 37 "kills" of enemy planes.

The Bridgeport Post - Sunday, January 08, 1967