- When World War I breaks out, young West Point cadet Gerald Ackland, who is studying in Paris, joins the French army as a fighter pilot. His French fiancee, Martha Landeau, and her father flee to the family farm, which is near the Marne River, for safety. When German troops take over the area, they raid Marthe's farm and attempt to ravage her--but suddenly, out of the sky, comes a French fighter plane that scatters the Germans--and its pilot is none other than Gerald. However, that's not the end of their troubles, by any means.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Gerald Ackland, a West Pointer and former Lieutenant in the U.S. Field Artillery, goes to Paris two years before the outbreak of the European war to learn aviation. At a garden party given by the American ambassador, he is introduced to Mlle. Landeau, a beautiful girl, the daughter of a famous painter. She is the possessor of a splendid voice, and on the occasion of the garden party captures the heart of Ackland by her singing of the immortal "La Marseillaise." Mlle. Landeau, however, mingled little in society, helping her aged father in his art classes. Ackland, driven to desperation by his inability to meet her and press his suit, finally joined the class, although he realized he would make a sorry pupil. It early appeared he had a rival in Rudolph Von Glahm, who made no secret of his infatuation for the young woman, much to her embarrassment and Ackland's disgust. There was no love lost between the two men, but no open break until one afternoon when the German, under the influence of liquor, made an insulting reference to Mlle. Landeau, when at his easel. The American knocked him down and a duel was averted only by the arrest of Von Glahm on a charge of espionage and ordered deported. War soon was declared and Ackland joined the French army as an aviator, while Mlle. Landeau and her father retired to a farmhouse near the Mons. Fate directed the American's scouting war plane to this farm in time to enable him to rescue his sweetheart from brutal German prisoners. He, himself, was captured but freed by British cavalry. Theirs developed into a real war romance when a decisive battle was fought about the farm, in which Ackland held off the Germans by manning the last British gun, assisted by Mlle. Landeau. French cavalry arrived in the nick of time, and the young American, dangerously wounded, was taken to Paris, where the girl, wearing the Red Cross, nursed him back to health.
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