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Wednesday April 24, 1918.
Field # 7

Field # 5 and field #6 was a long drawn session on account of the vagaries of the April weather in this section of France.  Rain, hail, eternal showers, [[underline]]snow[[/underline]], frost, raw days, fog, haze, and any of the calendar of weather delights that I fail to record were our lot.  The mud was intense and made the take-offs and landings precarious on account of the flying glue-balls striking the propellor hard enough to splinter. So under adverse flying circumstances we did indoor barracks flying" most of the time.

This field is still being built, along the lines of the several surrounding posts.  The hangars are huge canvas frames, well tied down, and capable of erection in a small number of hours.  Seven or more of these space-fillers face a rough stony plot of (formerly) tilled land. Between two of the central canvas buildings squats the administration shack.  A road runs between the hangars and a row of parallel portable barracks for men and officers is beyond the road. Landing circles for the