The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power by Marc Wortman

Author:Marc Wortman [Wortman, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781586485443
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2007-05-07T21:00:00+00:00

Following receipt of the first homing pigeon message, Coombe and his observer took off again to scour the sea. Desperate to find Smith and his crew, he flew out too far into the Bay of Biscay and did not have enough fuel left for the return flight to Le Croisic. He headed directly for the nearest station, La Pallice, a French base seventy-five miles south. However, losing his way in the dark and uncertain about the rocky coastline, he beached at the first possible safe location. Several miles from the nearest village, they stumbled upon a fisherman in a donkey cart who invited them to spend the night in his waterside stone cottage. Back at Le Croisic, his mates now feared they, too, were lost.

The next morning Coombe returned to his aircraft that had been battered by the surf. He managed to fly the fifteen remaining miles south to La Pallice. As soon as he arrived, he contacted Le Croisic. They were delighted to hear from him, but had no further word of Smith’s fate. Despondent, Coombe left his damaged aircraft for repairs at the French station and took the tram to the large nearby port of La Rochelle. He went to a harborside hotel to wait for his aircraft to be made ready. The once awe-inspiring Wags looked to be anything but supermen.

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