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July 8. (1918)
The only flight today was a trip into Hunland that I made with Lts. Putnam and Maclure to protect a French Salmson which took trench photographs.
During the time we were doing our work the archies were at their never-racking work. Several black balls and the accompanying "B-champ" were awful near my right wing. It has a new sound every time I hear the burst.
We were on early morning alert this A.M. and had just come off from our 3 hour shift at 7 oclock when, just as I'd got in my bunk for a snatch at lost sleep, the French A.As

Transcription Notes:
confirmed Salmson is a type of Fr WW1 aircraft confirmed archie is WW1 slang for anti aircraft shell