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July 18,

I've just read the preceding lines and wonder how I came to write them. I must have had a hunch about new  ^[[commonplace]] dangers for the few days gone by have indeed been full of tricks, and not entirely palatable ones. 

Last Tuesday, the 16th, Putname, Hirst, and I got our second Hun. It is great satisfaction to see tracers (among the regular bullets) going true into the fuselage of an enemy plane......

Our patrol of Lieutenants Putnam, Hirst, Fitzkee, Russell, and myself made a protection for a reconnaissance machine, and that accomplished we patroled St. Mihiel [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] to Pont-à-Mousson for a while. Near St. Mihiel the German anti-aircraft guns suddenly put up a signal to some Huns machine in the vicinity so we sensed the enemy's presence.

The leader of the Patrol gave his wing-tip-wiggle and surely enough there was a Rumpler bi-plane up above and turning a gradual left