His final tally was four German airplanes destroyed, two driven down out of control.

It shot down three German airplanes by rifle and machine-gun fire during the advance.

Occasionally a group of German airplanes would pass over our column with throbbing engines.

The boys were halfway across a snowfield when the German airplane appeared.

April saw him claim six more German airplanes and five more balloons.

It is credited with shooting down 42 German airplanes in the first 6 days of the war.

On 22 June 1916, he forced a German airplane into an involuntary landing.

It was the first German airplane to be shot down at night over Britain.

Three days later, he singlehandedly assaulted a formation of nine German airplanes.

Then, on 3 July 1918, he was killed in action while battling five German airplanes.