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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
3
A fragmented OCR text outlines chapters following Lieutenant Pat O'Brien during World War I. It details capture, imprisonment, and escape attempts, with German forces, military duties, and perilful journeys across occupied Europe. The content reads like episodic, sensational wartime fiction with recurring travel, battle, and escape motifs.
Memoir excerpt by Pat O'Brien dated January 14 1918 from Momence Illinois recounts survival after escaping from Belgium during World War I. He credits Providence luck and help from Dutch civilians aiding fellow prisoners and hopes to thank them in person after the war ends. He laments German prisoners and expresses gratitude to the Dutch Good Samaritans.
In May 1917, eighteen Royal Flying Corps cadets from Canada, Britain, and the United States sail on the Megante to train for France. The narrator, after joining the squadron near Ypres, details aerial combat, dangerous dives, balloon hunting, and his own capture later, while reflecting on perseverance and the costly losses of his comrades in the Great War.
A vivid account describes a prisoner in a German jail train car guarded by an armed guard. A window is open as the car speeds through hostile territory at about thirty five miles an hour.
Lieut. Pat O’Brien chose one daring chance and leapt from a train. Wounded and lame, he crawled two hundred fifty miles through enemy lines to safety, a tale told in the serial Outwitting the Hun.
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