Читать книгу Above the French Lines. Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator: July 4, 1917, to December 8, 1917 онлайн

1 страница из 11

Stuart Walcott

Above the French Lines

Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator: July 4, 1917, to December 8, 1917

Published by Good Press, 2021

goodpress@okpublishing.info

EAN 4066338079589

Table of Contents

ssss1

INTRODUCTION

ssss1

[From the Princeton Alumni Weekly of January 30, 1918.]

It is now seven weeks since the dispatches from Paris reported that Stuart Walcott was attacked by three German airplanes and brought down behind the German lines, after he himself had brought down a German plane in his first combat on December 12, 1917, and that it was feared he had been killed; but even now, after the lapse of nearly two months, it is not definitely known whether his fall proved fatal, or whether the earnest hope of his friends that he is still alive may be realized. The reports are conflicting. A cable message of January 7 said that in Germany it was reported that S. Walcott had been killed by a fall on December 12 near Saint Souplet; but Dr. Walcott received a letter on January 19 which holds out some hope that the fall was not fatal and that his son may be a prisoner in Germany. This letter, dated December 17, is from a young aviator named Loughran,ssss1 who was Stuart Walcott’s roommate at the flying station. He gives this report of what was told to him by an observer and pilot who saw the combat:

12 3 4 5 6 В конец