[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 11, 1918]

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 11, 1918. Describes how busy the squadron has been and relates a tale of a friend named Thompson Tommie, an observer in their squadron, being shot down after bringing down two Bosch Chasse planes before the third one could get him and his pilot was shot through the back with an explosive bullet and died soon after they landed. Wilbur goes on to explain that Tommie was shot through the leg and after he got out of the hospital he went to get confirmation of his victories: "The captain of the burial detail gave him a sworn statement that he had buried the two German pilots and that one of them was a woman. Now this is absolutely straight for I saw the proof myself. He also relates an account of a fellow lieutenant and some men who captured a German machine gun pillbox: He said there were no prisoners to be taken but there were two dead women chained to the emplacement [?] along with two young boys and a soldier." One of the men who captured the pillbox took a picture as proof, which Wilbur states he saw a few days later. Four sheets, seven handwritten pages, with envelope.

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