Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week interesting facts came to light about the relations between British and German flyers during the War. Captain Thomas J. C. Martyn, British ace, shrewd observer of men and events, former squadron commander at Isle-les-Hameau, and onetime Foreign Editor of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, was asked to give his opinion on recent despatches from Berlin which stated that Count Manfred von Richthofen, celebrated German flyer, was not shot in the air but killed by caitiff riflemen after he had made a safe landing behind the British lines...
Major Spatz: "The pursuit squadron is under command of the commanding officer of the Sixth Corps Area...
Time was when the flying super-ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, was as great a hero in German eyes as was Guynemer to the French.* Before his death he was credited with having brought down 80 Allied planes singlehanded, and the squadron which he commanded boasted of having wiped...
German newspapers asserted during the War that the British Government had set a price of ?5,000 (nearly $25,000) on his head. And when an English pilot finally shot him down, during a terrific battle between his squadron of 30 planes and 50 English machines, his death took news-precedence over even the Battle of the Somme...
...request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head of Schley, who had ranked...