Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — AMERICAN “ACE” IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN “ACE” IS KILLED

Captain Coolidge Slain by Hun Antiaircraft Shell. With the Ame?Jcan First Army, Nov. 8. —Capt Hamilton Coolidge, an American "ace," who had eight German machines to his credit was killed by a German antiaircraft shell while •flying deep within the enemy lines on October 27, it was learned. Captain Coolidge was the member of a prominent Boston family, a Harvard graduate, _ and extremely popular among the American aviators for hii modesty and fearlessness.