THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 5, 1925
* Greatest U. S. Aviation Hero'
CAPTAIN ERWIN,
SAYS FORMER
ARMY AIR CHIEF
Colonel Mitchell is Convinced
That William P. Erwin Was
America’s Greatest
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. s.—The
greatest American aviation hero of
the World war!
This title, conferred by no less an
authority than Colonel William B.
Mitchell, leader of American air
forces in France during the war, as
descended on the broad shoulders of
a quiet, smiling young Dallas man—
Captain William P. Erwin, son of a
Presbyterian minister.
Here’s what Mitchell recently had
to say about this hitherto unknown
hero:
“Several men, all brave and wor
thy, have been suggested as Amer
ica’s greatest aviation war hero.
“But without detracting from their
glory, I want to suggest a man who
had four observers shot in his plane;
a man who in a heavy two-seated
observation plane outflew most pi
lots in light pursuit planes; a man
who chased German aviators into
their airdromes; and w'ho, when shot
down once by the Germans, simply
jumped to the ground, wiped out a
whole nest of machine gunners and
made his way back to the American
lines'.”
USED SEVEN PLANES
Official records of the War De
partment in Washington reveal that
Erwin repeatedly was cited for gal
lantry because of his distinguished
record.
When he fought his way back to
the American lines after being forc
ed down in German territory, he
brought with him information of
great value to the allied forces, the
War Department records state.
Erwin used seven planes in France
being shot down six times—once
within the German lines when he
performed the feat described by Col
onel Mitchell; twice in no-man’s land
and three times within the American
lines. He was never wounded,
though one of his observers was
killed and three others were wound
ed.
But he insists his services as a
pianist were greater than as an avia
tor!
“The boys found a piano in a Ger
man dugout,” he says. “We lugged
it back to our quarters and had a
regular orchestra, what with a piano,
a violin, a ukulele and a banjo.
“The only way I got in aviation
to begin with was because I looked
so much like a sissy they wouldn’t
take me in the infantry. So when I
told ’em I wanted to be a flyer, they
swore no long-haired musician—l
was a pianist before the war—could
be an officer, but they let me try
—and somehow I passed the examin
ation.”
Erwin brought down eleven Ger
man planes, seven of them in the
thirty days preceding, the armistice.
“Afraid?” I was scared to death
all the time,” he laughs. “Funny,
but the worst fright comes right aft
er you leave the ground. Many a
time I was so scared I had to go
seven or eight miles back behind our ’
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lines and circle around for a while!
before I could get up courage to go |
out over no-man’s land.”
Erwin is emphatically in accord
with Colonel Mitchell’s demand for
a unified ai rservice.
“There’s no more reason for put
ting ground officers over aviators
than in getting a grizzly bear to
teach young eagles how to fly,” he
asserts. “But time after time, at the
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I have returned from Florida, where I have
been connected with the largest Bicycle Shop
in the South, and have learned a lot about bhe
business.
I have new stock of Bicycles and Parts arriv
ing daily, and have taken over new Bicycle
agencies and will carry a complete stock at all
times. It pays to buy the best. See me before
buying.
DOUGLAS FREEMAN
At Freeman’s Bicycle Shop
206 North Jackson St. Americus, Ga.
i front. I saw men take command who
| had absolutely no experience in fly
ling. You-know the Germans were
I in command of the- air at Chateau
I Thierry, at SommeAisne and at the
| last battle of the Marne.”
Erwin's father lives in Chicago.
; Before the war the boy was in the
University of Chicago, and was al
ready earning a living in the sum-
11 mer months, as a pianist.
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