Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1916 — AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO AID FRANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO AID FRANCE

Left to right: Sergt. Elliott Cowdin. Sergt. Norman Prince of Boston and Lieut William Thaw, three American birdmen who, for daring deeds on the battlefields of France, have been decorated for bravery, and came back to the United States to spend Christmas with their folks at home. Each has received the military medal and the war medal, the latter being the French equivalent of the Iron Cross of Germany. Already they have returned to their duty at the fronL « ■ ■