Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — NAVARRE AIR HERO AT 20 [ARTICLE]

NAVARRE AIR HERO AT 20

Has Twin Brother Who Aspires to Equal Record of Six German Victims. Paris. —Scarcely had the official communiques revealed the existence of Guynemer when they were compelled to make known the exploits of Jean Navarre, adjutant aviator, who had brought down six German aeroplanes without counting several that had fallen within their own lines. Jean Navarre is only twenty and within a year has won the War Cross, military medal and Legion of Honor, not to mention a collection of punishments for loopings, acrobatic feats and such like performed at moments when the authorities considered them unnecessary. Jean has a twin brother, Pierre, full of ambition to follow in his footsteps. The family lives at Lyons, where their mother has, of course, been interviewed since Jean became famous. “Their great amusement was to stretch a wire between two factory chimneys,” she said, “and give a tight rope performance, 60 feet above the ground. Pierre was twice found unfit for military service, as not being heavy enough or broad enough in the chest.”