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the gun cover and noted a cartridge sticking out of the feed block. Memo: a tool that will fix it [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[and an]] idea as to whether a converted screw driver wouldn't do the work of rectification
Meanwhile:- a lot of unpleasant thoughts.
However we pushed ahead and suddenly "Woof-Woof ca-[[underline]]rump[[/underline]]! and a nine letter barrage of Hun archies warned us away from Pont-à-Mousson.

I'd received orders not to go over the lines and for that order I was thankfull - with that gun on my conscience.

The patrol staid up, however,