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Photograph from Paul Thompson 



AMONG JIVING AVIATORS HE HOEDS THE) WORE^S RECORD EOR VICTORIES 



Major William A. Bishop, V. C., D. S. O., M. C, premier ace of Great Britain's Royal 

 Flying Corps, is a Canadian, 23 years of age. Seventy-two Hun planes have fallen before 

 the skill of this master airman. Major Bishop came to America on furlough last winter and 

 while in Washington, D. C, visited the headquarters of the National Geographic Society, 

 where he wrote "Tales of the British Air Service," published in the January, 1918, number of 

 the National Geographic Magazine:. 



the third fell five minutes later. That 

 afternoon he ran onto a formidable for- 

 mation of five of the new Pfalz fighting 

 machines working in contact with five 

 Albatros scouts — all single-seaters. He 

 dived into them and sent down three, one 

 after another, the remainder breaking up 

 and escaping before he could catch them. 

 These six machines were shot down with 

 an expenditure of ten cartridges per ma- 

 chine ! 



THE STORY OE RAOUE EUEBERY 



Raoul Lufbery, the boy who ran away 

 from his home in Wallingford, Conn., 

 when he was 17, who wandered half the 

 world' over, working at odd jobs until his 

 curiosity was satisfied and his purse re- 

 plenished, who enlisted as a regular sol- 

 dier in 1907, and went to the Philippines 



for two-years, where he won all the prizes 

 of his regiment as the best marksman on 

 the range, and who entered aviation in 

 France, his mother's country, mainly to 

 avenge the death of his friend and patron, 

 Marc Pourpe — this same Major Raoul 

 Lufbery met his death on Sunday morn- 

 ing, May 19 last, with a record of 18 

 German aeroplanes shot down, which is 

 the highest score held by any American. 

 Not a newspaper in our land but told of 

 his loss. This runaway boy died leaving 

 his name as well known to his country- 

 men as is that of Pershing or Sims. 



Among the last heroic survivors of the 

 old school of war-fliers, Lufbery was 

 revered and is mourned most keenly by 

 the group of our young airmen who were 

 under his tutelage in the Escadrille La- 

 fayette, the Spad 124. One of these, 



