FRENCH AIR ACE KILLED
NOTABLE. CAREER DURING WAR. WING BREAKS OFF IN MHQ AIR. Paris, .October 20. Colonel Happe', the famous French air ace, nicknamed “the*Corsair of the air” by the Germans, who put , a price of £2OOO on his head owing to his bombing of communications in the Belfort area, was killed td-day with his mechanic, following a wing breaking off in midair. Colonel Happe is believed to-be the pilot who once mistook his position ant. dropped 3 bombs-in-Switzerland. ■ ■ -
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1930, Page 11
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