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Lufbery Cut Leave to Fly to His Death Wright State University CORE Scholar Raoul Lufbery Newspapers Raoul Lufbery Collection (MS-502) March 2019 Lufbery Cut Leave to Fly to His Death Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms502_newspapers Part of the Military History Commons Repository Citation (2019). Lufbery Cut Leave to Fly to His Death. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Raoul Lufbery Collection (MS-502) at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Raoul Lufbery Newspapers by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. so that he enlisted in the United States the two Hun airplanes fell too far with­ regulars. He served 18 months in the In the en,,my's lines to be placed to the Philippines. When his enlistment end­ credit of Lufbery. Lufbery Cut Leave ed he went to Japan, China, India and In a combat with a German flier on later went to Constantinople, where he Dec. 27, 1916, Lufbery almost lost his worked as a waiter in a restaurant. life, four bullets striking bis plane very In a few months, his spirit of ·unrest near to his body. He brought down directed him to Cochin-China, where at hi~ opponent, making it his sixth re­ !"aigon, he met Marc Pourpe, a young corded German machine. to Fly tO His Death French aviator, who was giving flying In the war activities of 1917, Lufbery 6xhibitions In Asia. Pourpe was in need wa,i equally successful. In a recent de­ +------- of a mechanic. Lurbery had never seen spatch he was mentioned as having Continued From Firl!lt Pace man of his years. Since the early days an airplane, but he applied for the posi­ brought down 18 German airplanes. He tion and secured it. is known to have participated In more In writing a record of his life since he of his boyhood his career had been continuously one of excitement and 'This was the beginning of a firm than 50 aerial battles, and doubtless had became an aviator for some little time adventure. friendship between the two men. The brought down more than a score of previous to his death. Major Lufbery, who was 34 years old ll'rench aviator an<1 his American as­ opponents not credited officially. He Lufbery never missed an opportunity sistant gave flying exhibitions all over easily led all the American fliers. 1 at the time of his recent tragic death, to knock down an enemy machine, fre­ was born In a town in the Cevennes the, French provinces in Indo-China. Lufbery won the cross of the Legion quently tal,ing desperate chances tc, Mountain range of France. His father Lufbery received his first 1essons In of Honor, the gold medal of the Aero ~.dd to his victories. It was only yester­ was J<Jdward Lufbery, a New Yorker aviation from Pourpe, who was later Club of France, the British military day that he remarked jokingly: "You of New England antecedents. His to be killed after establishing an en­ medal, the war medal of the Aero Club fellows can't get all the easy pickings. mother was a French woman. The viable record as a French aviator on of America. and had several times bee'n I heard how you were knocking them .father had met and married the mother the western front. cited In French army orders. In refer­ down and decided to hurry back and during ,a stay In France as the repre­ ring to h!.s medals .he- once remarked: get some myself. Let 'em all come, the Lufbery wished personally to avenge sentative of an American business "I am looking like a Christmas tree, 1nore the merrier." his best friend, who after deeds of the house. greatest valor, had been shot down by medals all over my chest." The air service has lost more than a The boy grew up In a village under crack A.Viator in Lufbery. It has lost a the- Hun airmen on Dec. 2, 1914. Luf­ When the American air service In the shade of the rugged Cevennes first class instructor of young airmen b.,ry asked to be trained as an airplane J!'rance began to be of moment, Lufbery just coming to the front, who looked to Mountains. He attended school as pilot. Early In the summer of 1916, was commissioned a major In the Amer­ whim and humor directed and gained him for pointers on the little tricks of Lufbery went to the front as a member ican army. Late In January last he but little "book knowledge." The boy of the American escadrille. was Inducted Into the United States the trade which in the pinch may mean had Imbibed the indomitable spirit of life or death to an aviator. Lufbery with James R. McConnell, a. service with that rank. his mountainous surroundings and at former Chicago boy, on July 30 jointly Though the combat in '}'"hich Lufbery the age of 12 years he determined to lost his life was with one of the most attacked a German airplane and shot It leave home and ••see the world." down west of Etain, In the Verdun sec­ powerful of Germany's fighting planes, He obtained his first employment In a Wal11ngford Flags at It is believed that his failure to score tor. The following day Lufbery de­ chocolate factory, and then worked in ~troyed another enemy machine, and on his usual victory was due to the jam­ a macaroni plant. The lust for adven­ Half Mast for Lufbery ming of his machine gun. Aug. 4, he brought down another, this ture directed him to Paris. Later from victim falling near Verdun. WALLINGFORD, Conn., May 20.-The He was seen to draw off frotn his an­ Marseilles he set sail for northern tagonist as if trying to get something Africa and passed some time In Al­ Lufbery was soon decorated with the family of Major Raoul Lufbery, the about his machine In fighting trim geria, Tunis and Egypt. He fell Ill in military medal and the French war American aviator whose death has been again, and It was during this period cross, and was cited for bravery. Algiers and was confined in a hospital, announced, today received from him that he lost the advantage In position where he became an orderly and re­ Lufbery continued his good work. Al­ that led to his defeat. mained for a year. He went from most daily throughout the summer of some effects which gave them the im­ A bullet from t:,e German machine north Africa to Constantinople, where 1916, he had one or more combats, often pression that he Intended to come here punctured his gasolene tank and soon he worked for several weeks In a res­ returning to his home park with his on a visit. An hour later a report came j "his machine was In flames. He jumped ta.urant. He visited Rumanla and then mar.hine- full of bullet holes, and more of the death of Major Lufbery, but when some 800 yards from the earth. GE<rmany, where he worked for a brief than once with his clothing cut b;v there has been no official notification. The German machine which brought time In a brewery, and then shipped German fire. John E . Martin, warden of the bor­ Lufbery down, which was armed with to 8011th America under contract to a During the historic bombardment of ough, this noon ordered that flags in two machine guns, with an operator for German steamship company. the Mauser factories on Oct. 12, 1916, Wallingford be displayed at half staff each piece, apparently escaped, though Lufbery'11 plan was to visit the prin­ Lufbery shot down a three-manned for three days. He also requested that it was later attacked by anti-aircraft cipal city or cities In a country, and avlatik, which was counted his fifth the clergymen meet to decide on a date guns. If he found the place Interesting to official victory, and gained him the hon­ for holding e. memorial service. In be­ Lufbery's only wound, aside from rl)maln there until he had viewed all er of the French official communique. half of the borough, Warden Martin those received w:1en he crashed . to its interesting features. It was In this raid that Norman issued a card extending sympathy to earth, was a bullet hole through the In 1907, at the age of 23 years, Luf­ Prince of Boston and Pride's crossing the family. thumb. Apparently the same bullet bery worked his way from South was mortally Injured. The escadrille Major Lufbery leaves his father, Ed­ punctured one of the gasolene tanks 01 A,merlca to Connecticut, where at the then moved up to the Somme battlefield, ward, and a sister, In Yalesvl!le, a his machine tow,:,. of Wallingford he sought the and on Nov. 9 and 10 Lufbery tri­ brother employed here, a sister In Penn­ The German machine was under members of his father's family. His umphed over two German airmen, but sylvania and three sisters in Boston. heavy anti-aircraft fire several times, mother had died some year11 before. t•oth befor~ and after ihe air fight, and Lufbery's father was not at home, hav­ one explosion of a shell upset the en- ing returned to France on business. emy's plane, but it managed to He found a younger brother In Wal­ stralg:1ten out. lingford and with him attended an It was about 10 o'clock this morning evening school, trying to learn Eng­ when a Ger!Ilan triplane suddenly de- Ilish, of which he spoke but little.
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