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and fought Bosche with him and I know he's there!  Yesterday he came down [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in]] a peeved state of mind because of his machine gun jamming [[underlined]] again [[/underlined]]. And casually he remarked that it had cost him a Bosche. "How many were there," I asked.  "Three," he replied.  And I snickered because he said it so off-handedly without a trace of anything out of the ordinary. Fancy "jumping" three Bosche!

Today an associated press man came to interview him. Putnam turned to me and questioned  [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[about]] giving the reporter a story. "Go ahead," I advised, "for goodness sakes tell the people at home that you come from Massachusetts and [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] Brooklyn, N.Y."  "All right." He turned to the correspondent and invited him into [[strikethrough]] the room [[/strikethrough]] the barracks.  "I'll tell him to get it