Lt.Sewall Shot Down Hun

Lieutenant Sumner Sewall '20, of Bath Me., according to dispatches just received from France, on Monday shot down an enemy two-seated airplane inside the American lines northwest of Toul. Six German and three American planes participated in the encounter. After a running fight from an altitude of 500 meters to within 200 meters of the earth, Sewall finally brought down a Hun airman in an open field.

Sewall left the University for overseas in 1917, first entering the ambulance service. In December he applied for service with the American Army and began training as an aviator. At the time of his exploit he had been in the active flying service just three weeks.