Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — U. S. FLYERS HIT TEN “SUBS” [ARTICLE]

U. S. FLYERS HIT TEN “SUBS”

Two Underaea Craft Sunk, 8 Damaged by Them, Capt. Thomas C. Craven Says. Boston French records credit United States naval flyers with having damaged ‘ and possibly destroyed twelve German, submarines, according to Capt. Thomas 6. Craven. "U. S. N.. commander of all the United States naval aviation forces in France, who returned on the U. S,’ S. Agamemnon, His department, he said, took a more conservative view l and conceded the sinking of two and the damaging of eight of the enemy craft. Captain Craven described the rapid growth of the United States naval air forces in France from nine small seaplanes to a’ great fleet operating from a port near Brest with more than battle seaplanes of the best type, He cWlieved" the, patrol work of this fleet an important factor in the curtailment of enemy submarine successes near the French coast.