WAR

the front-line infantry observers in the Chateau-Thierry sector signaled an
L.V.G. two-seater over the French trenches early in the morning on October 25,
1915. Navarre, who like Pegoud was in the habit of sitting in his aeroplane waiting
for an opportunity to fly, took off immediately and found the German machine
within a few miles of where it had been sighted. It was headed roughly west so
he followed it for a while hoping that it would fly close enough to Paris for him to
have an excuse to land at Le Bourget and perhaps have a bit of a time in the
capital. Unfortunately, the Boche didn't go that far. He turned abruptly about and
the two aeroplanes were suddenly nose to nose. The German pilot ducked, the
Navarre