University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

Page 28 text:

S' E MXN! A 2 4 Y gigs vf:1 - -X 9l NX f , , ,Y ,fx V N lf' ONE- EE-ASON KNHY So NK? F-ew AM!-Q1C.ANs ' xx ' eo-r 'ro PAQIS . 1 , XJ f .k., .....,.............. ' I L, L ,l.,, K Lf' HOW sam? HE-LMA-T5 1 ', G-01 DE-N1-P.-D - THEY , i 1. S B MADE C-ooo EASHBALL. I I . V . mums ' , WMU -SE-D '-Hsu V. G ' 6 L ka ccuL.o'NT 6-E-T A ' ,JN I , v 'K ....1--'-43' 4 , 4 aww-H L-v wwe- 1-ff wk Fr X Q 1 , Qiglx ka i.4,'1l,1'7'-XF-QONT! ' 'T'HEFlE: 6 5 1 'KX 'x,,.55r'f XNAS A now: b J K J N- ffm evnwxf Qc.:-P-E A :Q 5 gl. I V -M l J 1 I ... 1 I , . , , a lf . A L . gg ' w3.....,a 4 1 QQ? 9'--m ' ' fig!! ,,.l,-..... W ,. 4 ,, 5 -LQ .- X --3-LLL.-'ff-J vm - , .. -.,-,ww-4-jp-H k 1 l I HJ....,,,! V4 4 i I ' G-HE-1-H ' THANKS' 1YOU'EE Tl-IT. I KLND A ru i BUQDY 'To , 1 i l HAVE.. 5, X2--ff , A . .4 It F, ' Xxx ' A I XGAS DRILL- g 73' u, FZLNCH 'r-05445 ' 2 SAX Q9 5 . w ,,, W...-.. Aer 0An.Qy -. W , . Twcntll , i THE 'TWESTYUILLIO ,

Page 27 text:

A ,Q 4 ' '-ze, -3 fffx Credited with having shot down six German planes, Lieutenant Frank Hays ex-'19 is the first of the Illini aces. He wears the Distinguished Service medal for bravery in action. Lieutenant Hays left college and the baseball diamond to enter the Aviation Corps. He saw active service on the Lorraine front from August, 1918, until the armistice was signed, bringing down six planes officially and several for which he has not been credited. One of his spectacular feats occurred on September 13. One of the group of five, he was attacked by seven Hun planes. His machine gun jammed, but successfully clearing this, he lodged his attackers and drove off several Huns who were embarrassing the flight commander. For this display of bravery he received his decoration. Wearing the French decoration which shows three divisional citations, Capt. Lyle H. Gift '18, was one of the first Illini war veterans to return and visit theicampus. Capt. Gift fell irrthedsecond battle of the Marne at Soissons on July 19, 1918, and, when he reached an evacuation hospital, was found to be suffering from wounds which necessitated the amputation of his right leg above the knee. He was sent to the United States to convalesce before the armistice was signed, and is now in the officer's headquarters at Camp Walter Reed hospital in Wash- ington, D. C. In memory of his great work in France, a city was named after William Uackl Hamilton '17, by the people in the vicinity where his ambulance carried the wounded poilus. Enlisting in the ambulance service in July of 1917, he was soon after sent to France. Here he saw active service until May 4, 1918 when, near the village of Diaan, he was struck by a German shell and killed. Letters from the commander of the ambulance unit deplored his comrades of the dead hero The American Army on the Archangel front is engaged in fighting the Bolshevik army. Frazier Hunt '08, is an American Being such, his daring presence in Russia is that of an enemy within the lines. For moral and physical courage in risking his life to present news to the world this latest achievement of Frazier Hunt is unsurpassed in the journalism of the war. This tribute, by Floyd Gibbons, typifies the work of Frazier Hunt in the war. Spike was the editor of the 1908 Illio and is now special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. He has seen service on both the western and the eastern front, and should have some W 1 . V 77. untimely death, and described the sincere sorrow shown by all the 173 great tales to tell at Homecoming next year. Nineteen THE TWE3TY ILLIO

Page 29 text:

Q A. Q :. S, I Enix y 1 .lf ' four: Flfllf ., ell , . l Dcmlly bullets sped from this machine gun shelter. No word of mouth. yet victory depended upon the wireless. From all over the world, came men to fight for democracy. I Capt. O. M. Burns '17 Ensign J. W. Grcenc '18 Lt. M. Mason '16 Lt. C. E. Snell Ensign R. A. Curlg-gen Tzvenly-one 1 - y THE TWE3TY lLLl0