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Lieut. Walter Chalaire of New York, formerly a well-known newspaper reporter, was hit in an air fight at 12,000 feet. The German bullet landed in his cartridge belt, driving its way straight into one of the bullets in the belt, which thus saved his life. Another bullet hit Chalaire's goggles a glancing blow, smashing the glass and bending the steel wire frame. Chalaire is now Convalescent in the American Hospital at Dartford, London
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, American Red Cross Official Photograph.
Group title: General, U.S. in England.
On caption card: B-106.
Data: Atlantic Div. 11/14/18.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1918
Location
dartford
Source
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