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[[circled]]296[[/circled]] large sluggishly-moving buses after being on scouts the reply was "It is rather [[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a comedown]] and I'm going to get back to scouts." Most of them have been over the lines several times already and recount the doings of "Archie" in no mean-tempered tones. Bush came down in his plane, jumped out, and walking 30 careful paces in front of his prop shouted, [[underlined]] "There's [[/underlined]] where the darned thing busted!" While we were looking the 'drome over Lieut Kennedy went off in his "A.R.", [[a sluggish old biplane,]] with his observer. In six minutes we were watching the black balls bursting all about his ship. Such a business! Lockhart has already been recommended for the Croix de Guerre for taking his pictures while in a perfect rain of shell fire. So has my old classmate ^[[Jim]] Wooten whom I saw before returning in our squadron cadillac. After looking the lay over I'm inclined more than ever to praise the scouts. In a single-seater one is entirely on his own, with a quick responding bus. ^[[But the observation is more vital, after all.]]
Transcription Notes:
"Archie" = slang for anti-aircraft fire