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Lieut. Luke Missing, One of Paired Aces
The Stars and Stripes - Friday, November 1, 1918
LIEUT. LUKE MISSING, ONE OF PAIRED ACES
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Flyer Does Not Return After Dropping Three Boche Machines
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Like a blazing meteor was the brief, brilliant career of Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr., as a fighting flyer in the American Air Service. He has been reported missing since... 
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16 July 2007 10:23 AM
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New French Triumph in Balloons
The Weekly Dispatch - Sunday, March 11, 1917
NEW FRENCH TRIUMPH IN BALLOONS.
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How Observers "Spot" for the Gunners.
"WEEKLY DISPATCH" CABLE.
Paris, Saturday
Among the latest triumphs of the French aerial service is a new observation balloon known as "Le Caquot." At the...
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15 July 2007 08:32 PM
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Aeroplane Parachute
The News of the World - Sunday, July 28, 1918
AEROPLANE PARACHUTE.
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DESIGNER'S DEATH ON FIRST DESCENT.
How an aeroplane designer lost his life when carrying out trials with an invention to enable aeroplane pilots to descend in parachutes, should emergency arise, was described at an inquest held in Middlesex...
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15 July 2007 07:56 PM
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Aeroplane Parachutes
The Daily News - Monday, August 19, 1918
AEROPLANE PARACHUTES.
Although our own authorities have so far not, I believe, approved any device for using parachutes with aeroplanes, the Germans are using them. Two cases are reported from the fighting of the last three days of German aviators in Fokker biplanes,...
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15 July 2007 07:21 PM
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Germans' New Type of Aeroplane
The Daily News - Saturday, September 21, 1918
GERMANS' NEW TYPE OF AEROPLANE.
Extremely Fast Machine Declines Combat.
American Front, Friday
An entirely new type of enemy airplane has been reported by patrols. It is extremely handy to manoeuvre. Another machine, of which only a few have been seen, is on...
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15 July 2007 07:02 PM
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Epic Air Fight
The Daily News - Saturday, August 31, 1918
EPIC AIR FIGHT.
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Unofficial American Pilot Who Engaged an Enemy "Circus."
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RECOMMENDED FOR TWO V.C.s.
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The amazing adventures of an American boy who, flying a British machine, in a single morning took part in a fight with twelve German machines,...
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15 July 2007 04:15 PM
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Soldiers' New Vocabulary
The Weekly Dispatch - Sunday, December 16, 1917
SOLDIERS' NEW VOCABULARY.
Weird Words Introduced by the Anzac Troops.
Australian and New Zealand troops are fast adding to the choice vocabulary of slang words which the average English soldier makes use of. Most of the terms are quite strange to this country and...
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15 July 2007 03:16 PM
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War in the Air
The Daily News - Wednesday, September 11, 1918
WAR IN THE AIR.
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Pilot's Appetite for "German Sausage."
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FOUR IN ONE DAY.
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German observation balloons have had a bad time recently. One British pilot, scouting behind the enemy's lines, pounced on two of them in swift succession, and succeeded in...
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15 July 2007 12:10 PM
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Superman of the Air
The News of the World - Sunday, March 31, 1918
SUPERMAN OF THE AIR.
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AMAZING RECORD OF A BRITISH OFFICER.
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EVERY DECORATION FOR VALOUR WON BY AIRMAN.
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Starting at Mons, Captain James Byford McCudden, the star British airman, has won every award for valour possible to an officer in the British Army. In two...
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15 July 2007 11:27 AM
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Six Hun Machines Down
The News of the World - Sunday, April 07, 1918
SIX HUN MACHINES DOWN
WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF BRITISH BOY-AIRMAN.
How a British boy-airman brought down six Hun aeroplanes in one day during two flights behind the enemy lines has just been revealed. Unfortunately, the 20-year-old hero of the adventure, Capt. John L....
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15 July 2007 10:07 AM
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