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caused me to redress and endeavor to rectify the double feed. I couldn't move the pawls on my feed block, however, so with Putnam also giving his distress signal a slight series of zooms [[image of a wavy horizontal line]] we headed home again. The last either of us saw of the [[Bosche?]] was a steep vertical slip that he was doing. No confirmation of his crash has been received (up to 8:00 P.M.) and the combat was so far to the rear of the lines that it may take weeks to learn what the damage was.
The archies came perilously close on our trip back to our own lines. To me they seemed as though shrapnel ought to be buzzing all around me and I cast anticipating glances at my wings. Putnam chuckled over my glowing tribute to the aim of Hun anti aircraft gunners and pooh-poohed

Transcription Notes:
archies is ww1 slang for german anti aircraft shells.