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sender believes an "O.K." effected.

Puffs, or puff targets is training along the line of this artillery observation because in this we go up to about 2000 or 2500 and fly back and forth over a wireless tent below, at which the shoot is made. Powder flashes are set off in fashion akin to the burst of shells. The "O.K." at our camp was at the switch of a railroad branch. The first flash gave the location of the target, the second gave a "12 o'clock" correction to get the true north line, then the remainder of the shoot was a series of corrections calling for the exercise of judgement in estimating distances and directions. Understand, the "clock code" is imaginary, just as the "pin points" or the maps of the war country, so it is practice