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of respect for Major Thaw and I believe he should have had higher rank and a better [[position?]] in the American forces than that which was accorded to him. The Major is a heavy set man with a calm countenance and a serious mien; his grip is good, the handshake he gives tells the man that his is. He commands the 103rd aero squadron (part of a Second Pursuit Group of this First Army) and among his men are [[strikethrough]] [[?]] his old [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] a few of the Lafayette Escadrille of which Major Thaw himself is one of the original ten well known Americans. They just landed to join us, coming from Dunkerque.
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At 8 o'clock in the twilight of evening a diversion was created in an otherwise dull day by an invitation to a dance at Evacuation hospital number one (Sebastopol.) We rode there two miles in the Cadillac and found a crowded bomb shack shaking to the shuffling of

Transcription Notes:
confirmed Dunkerque is FR spelling of Dunkirk confirmed evacuation hospital was in Sebastopol.