[1] On another occasion, Round's Spad caught fire at 35,00 meters, and he had to crash land "in a marsh near Verdun, in a sea of cool, delicious, wet mud, and in one sense was none the worse for the bath.

[1] On 3 January 1918, he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service and became the Chief Pilot at the American Aviation Instruction Center in Tours.

Cloud, where he heard Marshal Ferdinand Foch say: "They gave a great example to the world, lighting in America the flame of that just crusade, which the squadron held up so gloriously.

In the Spring of 1941, Rounds was deployed as a Vice Consular Officer under Robert Daniel Murphy to the U.S. Embassy at Oran, Algeria, where he worked with Ridgway B. Knight to gather intelligences on Axis power troop movements and other important information.

[8][9][10] Immediately before Torch commenced, Rounds boarded the headquarters ship of Commodore Thomas H. Troubridge, the HMS Largs, to coordinate and disseminate information between free French forces and the Allied militaries.