Eddie V. Rickenbacker WWI Diary
Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker's 1918 wartime diary entry. (03/18/1918). Major Lufbery and three of the other boys arrived from Paris this P.M. One boy by the name of [Lt. Thorne C.] Taylor caught on fire after a few loops and landed ablaze. All our planes have machine guns mounted. The much talked of suicide fleet used by English to fool Germans in North Sea has nothing on the suicide chase squadron which is going over the lines every day. 3 Americans in Nieuports without machine guns and 2 Frenchmen with SPADs. This will be good reading matter in years to come.
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