Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 11

TS 1928-PART 1. DAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. JANUARY Part 2—The Lafayette Escadrille CHAPTER VIIL The Death of Kiffin Rockwell. EPTEMBER came. with shorter days. cool mornings and turning Verdun's mammoth battle fad- ed with (he dyving Summer, but the Escadrille still managed to find a few little flurries of war above the quiet battleficld. On one of the first days of the month Bert Hall turned aside from his place in the moming patrol to Shoot down A German after a brief fight. Norman Prince was the next to ALBaosl ROCKWELL Oon TH 8. 4 Score and then Kiffin Rockwell sent another crashing down. These were routine battles and the record holds but few details of the com- bats. All were brief and successtul: the Escadrille rejoiced. Equipment was scanty and every Pplane had 10 be flown until it was en- Flving the ancisnt ships was so absorbing a labor that the abilky of the Americans to find sufficient additional energy to win vic- tories while keeping themselves in the &ir war a major accomplishment. The Reckoning. As the tragedy of Verdun closed. the | Escadrille Americaine took stock of its part in the struggle. They had fought 148 combats in the air, had won 13 officially verified victories and had suffered losses of one pilot killed and three wounded. They nad won fame throughout the worid and had proven that the current generztion of Young America took as kindlt to war as had it fathers. They had taught them- selves the technique of fighting in the 8ir and en the fifth month of the Escadrille’s life' s seasoned veterans. On September 12 the Escadrille was ordered to retun tw” Luxeuil without planes. Thenault ook his men (o their Dew assignment by way of Paris. Here the Americans spent pleasant days in 8 restful atmosphere delightfully dif- ferent from that of the Verdun front Bome had money and some had not. but funds were held in common in this band of knights errant and the Cha- than carsvansarie knew them ail. The New Mascot. One bright day. a5 Thaw perused his mominz paper. he learnca that a Prazilian dentist yearned to dispose of @ lion cub which he had bought in a moment of misguided enthusiasm dur- ing a visit o Africa. Calling upon Prince. Rockwell and Bert Hall for Assistance. Thaw raised a fund of five hundred francs and bbught the lion as & mascot for the Escadrille. It wes fitting that men of such extreme fight- ing tion should amuse them- Selves in their lighter hours with a Yon. rather than with the more domes- ticated pets of other units, ‘The question of a name for the new membe: was gravely considered and it was decided 1 call him “Whisky,” on the ground 4hat though he had a smooth sad pleasing exterior, he was loaded with potential trouble. He dem- onstrated this before he got out of Paris Thaw ook the animal to the rail- road saton on a leash and bought & ticket entitling one dog tn passage. “What kind of animal is that?” de- manded a raflway official “An African dog.” replied Thaw ealmly Probably resenting class. éog. “Whiskey” gave a rosr tirely worn out. ation sx hat shook the station Women scresmed anc jumpec {rom the carriage and the station employes souzht corver. one of them trying o climb a smooth iror phiar 1 the roof of the trainshed Thaw and his pet were not sliowed take the train A tain carrieg “Whiskes" in the baggege car—in a strong cage, The New Nieuports. On September 19, s1x planes arri &t Luxeull. ‘Tney were new and larger | Nieuporis and were armed with the mew Vickers machine n. firing | through the prope Although under | orders not w fly be: the date of the | secret mision which had brought them tn Luxeull Lufhery and Rockwell ir under the excuse ¢ new machines. On the test” flight, on Bep- WO companions were welerkop! when by a patrol of very's machine gun forced 1o fiee tor with Fockwell cotering his re Lufhery lunded safely at s ved they were three Pokkers Jammed 8nd he vas shelter trest Prench sirdrome under Rockwells es- oort. put the later was not satisfied with the outcome of the siirmsh and went Lack slone U, renew the sigu ment. The Death of Korkwell The three Fokkers had vanished. but Fnckweil soon 1ound & Germs trose CRITYING tWO mes dove on the Germar o g | W et below BRA bebing. out of renge of the rear gunner ‘The German hen » pi target and one of hie first hul Jeta ruck Jusckwell in the chest il ing hun instantly. With mousn wide open. the Nieuporl dived heudiong with | the aead pliot from a height of over ) three miles AL 1wo miles & Wing broke | off and the wreck crashied i earth » mile behing the French lines Lufvery | hen walched (he tsgedy from the @round. heipless 1o wid his friend Rockwell wes buried on Seplember 7% ana his funeral was sitended by | ine entire populstion of Luxewl The CoMi was buried under & grest. mound of fowers stripped from every garden for mils wround | The desth of Rockwell, like thet of Chapr vur 8 herd blow o the ¥acudriiie and ine pwin of ) e wor ntensificd by the discovery that| b hed been kilied by an dlegal ¢ plosive bullet of the same type w 6 brougnt Beisley down By “ 1 exemined tne wound seid thet f | U pullel rag been sn orginary king, 2 L - i m— ) 1 4 i | Mnes. With final s p which his ‘ ACES UP! 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Before Lufbery = &3 | could swing out of the line of fire | three bullets struck his engine, two | passed through his flying suit, another | ripped open one of his boots and others | cut” his” elevating plane and riddled | Sizes 14 to 42 and Youthful Stouts Sizesfrom42to48 Rockwell would have had an even chance of making a safe landing and eventually recovering from his wound The date of the mission for which the Escadrille had been brought to Luxeuil was near, and so was thc op- portunity to avenge Rockwell, although At A cost that none of the Escadrille would willingly have paid. Norman Prince was the first to score after the death of Kiffin Rockwell. Luf- bery had spiraled down over a German fiving field. far behind the enemy lines and one of the hornets he stirred to his ship from wing tip to wing tip. He was barely able to hold the wreck to- gether until he reached Luxeuil. where the mechanics took one look at his ship and consigned it to the junk pile A Secret Mission. At last the day of the great attack for which the Escadrille had been waiting arrived. Sixty airplanes had been assembled, most of them slow and antiquated Farmans and Breguets, for the largest aerial operation of the war up to that time. 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