Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — DOWN PLANE WITH RIFLE [ARTICLE]

DOWN PLANE WITH RIFLE

Remarkable Feat of Marksmanship Described by 'American • ; Newspaper Man. Atlanta, Ga. —How a German. airplane was brought down by a squad of American infantrymen armed only with rifles is graphically described in a letter from Harl H. Coffee, wellknown to newspaper men of the South through his former connection with the Western Newspaper Union, and wl.o is now serving in France with the Eighty-ninth division. A small squad of American soldiers, ' among them Mr. Coffee, was resting by the side of a road, when a German plane, flying very low, passed over and began dropping hand grenades. The Americans opened fire with their rifles and a chance shot struck the pilot in the head, killing him instantly and bringing the machine,to the ground with a crash. This is the first Instance reported where an airplane has been