Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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bert Plumer, commander of the Sec-ond British Army, after Lieut. Luff had gone fivemiles behind the German lines and shot down anobservation balloon. Other aviators who tried thefeat had been shot down. Luff is the only living American who has the cross.Four others on whom the honor had been bestowedfell to their deaths. He has sent his parents a cer-tificate of the bestowal of the cross. When I got within 200 yards of the balloon, Luffwrote, machine gun bullets came thickly at me. Iwas nervous. Flaming onions also were shot at me.They are projectiles that are shot at planes to setthem afire. 1 finally hit the balloon and saw it fallin flames, while the observer went out in his para-chute.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. CANADIAN ACE OF ACES HAS 72PLANES TO HIS CREDIT. Col. William A. Bishop, Canadian ace, talks ofthrills and hes amply qualified to speak. His of-ficial record tells how he downed 72 German air-planes. He has been decorated by almost every one FACTS, STORIES AND INCIDENTS 377
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378 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK

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