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of the day up to our second alert period. We saw many machines and some archie work but no planes were downed,

At 5:00 P.M. (17 o'clock) I went up to 3500 meters and waited for the patrol leader to appear.

On Lt. Putnam's orders I circled for some time then signaled to Lts. Maclure and Schulz to follow and lead a patrol towards Pont-à-Mousson, at this point I tried my machine gun. It fired three to 10 shots in a couple of bursts and then jammed. I lifted