1st Lt. John B. Goode
\147th Aero squadron, USAS

Whitey (1) and Bedroll (2) gone. Killed on the balloon attack at Dun (3) this afternoon.


(1) – 1st Lt Wilbert Wallace (Whitey) White Jr., served as C Flight commander, credited with 8 aerial combat victories. Killed 10 Oct 1918 near Dun-sur-Meuse During the same balloon attack which claimed 2nd Lt. Brotherton’s life, he sacrificed himself, colliding with a Fokker that was attacking a new pilot in his flight. He left a wife and 2 children.

(2) 2nd Lt. William E. ‘Bedroll’ Brotherton – C Flight, 3 aerial victories, KIA 10 Oct 1918. According to Cpt. Eddie Rickenbacker he was “diving upon a nested balloon through a hurricane of flaming projectiles. A flaming onion had pierced his wings and they were now ablaze. To add to his predicament, a Hun machine was behind his tail, firlng as he dived.”

(3) Dun-sur-Meuse

Whitey with his Nieuport and Brotherton on beer keg.

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