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Photograph from Laurence La Tourette Driggs 

 LIEUTENANT CHARLES NUNGESSER ', SCORE, 36 HUNS 

 Nungesser is second only to Lieutenant Fonck among living French fliers in the number 



of his victories, 

 plane. 



His fighting plane mounts one gun on the engine hood and one on the upper 



RECORD OF FRANCE S HERO DEAD 



Nineteen French aces, dead or retired, 

 have brought down 208 enemy aero- 

 planes. 



(The date of the termination of the ace's activities 

 is indicated in parentheses.) 



Capt. Georges Guynemer (September n, 1917)... 53 



Lieut. Rene Dorme (May 15, 1917) 23 



Lieut. Jean Chaput (May 18, 1918) 16 



Lieut. Navarre (retired April 10, 1917) 12 



Lieut, de la Tour (December 21, 1917) 11 



Adjt. Maxime Lenoire (October 25, 191 6) n 



Capt. Georges Matton (September 10, 1916) 9 



Sergt. Sauvage 8 



Capt. Rene Doumer (April 26, 1917) 7 



Lieut, de Rochefort 7 



Capt. Alfred Auger (July 28, 1917) 7 



Lieut. Henri Languedoc 7 



Lieut, de Mortemart (March 20, 1918) 6 



Lieut. Adolph Pegoud (August 31, 1915) 6 



Lieut. Andre Delorme 5 



Sergt. Marcel Hauss . 5 



Capt. Lecour-Grandmaison (May 10, 1917) 5 



Lieut. George Baillot (May 20, 1916) 5 



Adjt. Pierre Violet (December 2y, 1916) 5 



The total of 74 French aces, living and 

 dead, is 755 enemy aeroplanes shot down 

 to June 15, 1918. 



WHAT UNITED STATES ACES HAVE DONE 



Maj. Raoul Lufbery (killed May 19, 1918) 18 



Sergt. David E. Putnam, Brookline, Mass 13 



Lieut. Frank L. Baylies, New Bedford, Mass. 



(missing June 20, 1918) 12 



Maj. William Thaw, Pittsburgh, Pa 5 



Lieut. Robert Magoun, Boston, Mass. (wounded 



April 8, 1918) 5 



Lieut. Douglass Campbell, Pasadena, Cal 5 



Adjt. Edwin C. Parsons, Springfield, Mass 5 



Lieut. H. Clay Ferguson (wounded March 12, 



1918) 5 



Lieut. Paul Frank Baer, Mobile, Ala. (missing 



May 22, 1918) 5 



Corp. David McK. Peterson, Honesdale, Pa. (last 



victory unofficial) 5 



Lieut. Edward Richenbacker, New York 5 



Eleven American aces have a total of 

 83 enemy planes brought down. Several 

 of the British aces are Americans who 

 enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps. 



THE BRITISH LIST 



Major William A. Bishop 72 



Capt. Tames McCudden 54 



Capt. Philip F. Fnllard 4^ 



Capt. Henry W. Wollett (13 in one day) 2S 



Lieut. John J. Malone 20 



Lieut. Allan Wilkenson 10 



Lieut. Stanley Rosevear r S 



Lieut. Robert A. Little 17 



