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Jerome Preston '19, of Lexington, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for conspicuous service on two occasions while under fire. Preston left college during his Sophomore year and was the first Lexington boy to enter the service in the war. He is with the American Ambulance Service and has been in France for 15 months...
...bringing down a German plane recently, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17 has won the Croix de Guerre, as well as the congratulations of the French general commanding the zone in which the machine was downed. It is believed that he is the first graduate of a strictly American aviation school to bring down a German plane...
Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...
David E. Putnam '20 has added two more enemy machines to his list of victims and has been promoted to the rank of sergeant in the Lafayette Escadrille. He had formerly been awarded the Croix de Guerre with palms...