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Title: High Adventure
A Narrative of Air Fighting in France

Author: James Norman Hall

Release Date: February 11, 2008 [EBook #24570]

Language: English

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The Riverside Library

High Adventure

A Narrative of Air Fighting in France

By

JAMES NORMAN HALL

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1917 AND 1918, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY JAMES NORMAN HALL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published June, 1918_

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

TO
SERGENT-PILOTE DOUGLAS MACMONAGLE
KILLED IN COMBAT NEAR VERDUN
SEPTEMBER 25, 1917

[Illustration: THE AUTHOR]

Contents

I. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS 1

II. PENGUINS 24

III. BY THE ROUTE OF THE AIR 47

IV. AT G. D. E. 79

V. OUR FIRST PATROL 107

VI. A BALLOON ATTACK 144

VII. BROUGHT DOWN 167

VIII. ONE HUNDRED HOURS 182

IX. "LONELY AS A CLOUD" 200

X. "MAIS OUI, MON VIEUX!" 209

XI. THE CAMOUFLAGED COWS 216

XII. CAFARD 226

LETTER FROM A GERMAN PRISON CAMP 233

HIGH ADVENTURE

I

THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS

It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I
first