Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air by Henry Bordeaux
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page 47 of 218 (21%)
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An airplane capsizes on the sand. What does he care about an
airplane--don't they know that his old passion and dream are dead? Since August 2 he has not given them a thought. However, he begins a conversation with the pilot, who is a sergeant. And all at once a new idea takes possession of him; the old passion revives again under another form; the dream rises once more. "How can one enlist in the aviation corps?" "Arrange it with the captain; go to Pau." Georges runs at once to the Villa Delphine. His parents no longer recognize the step and the face of the preceding days; he looks like their son again; he is saved. "Father, I want to go to Pau to-morrow." "Why this trip to Pau?" "To enlist in the aviation corps. Before the war you wouldn't hear of my being an aviator, but in war aviation is no longer a sport." "In war--yes, it is certainly quite another thing." Next day he reached Pau, where Captain Bernard-Thierry was in command of the aviation camp. He forced his way through Captain Bernard-Thierry's door, over the expostulations of the sentries. He explained his case and pleaded his cause with such fire in his eyes that the officer was dazed and fascinated. From the tones of the captain's voice, when he referred to the two successive rejections, Guynemer knew he had made an |
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