The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his S.P.A.D. to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans.
The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his S.P.A.D. to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans.
The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his S.P.A.D. to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans.
The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his Spad airplane to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans. On the way home my engine suddenly went dead and I had to land on the side of a hill only ten kilometers from Metz, he wrote in a letter to his father. Had my engine stopped the same way any time during my work over the lines when the war was on I would have been a prisoner.
Hobey was one of the first pilots America sent to France in 1917. While there, he regularly wrote to his father, who then lived in Princeton, where both father and son had attended college.
By Terence P. Jeffrey | December 30, 2020 | 9:53am EST
Hobey Baker (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his S.P.A.D. to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans.
“On the way home, my engine suddenly went dead and I had to land on the side of a hill only ten kilometers from Metz,” he wrote in a letter to his father. “Had my engine stopped the same way any time during my work over the lines, when the war was on, I would have been a prisoner.”