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anything befalls them the Imperial Air Service loses only 1 plane!  They are wily militarists and are saving their machines.  It is even as [[strikethrough]] Bol [[/strikethrough]] Boelcke wrote to his mother too, namely, that, "the Germans don't fly over hostile lines for the reason that new machines have features which ought to be kept secret; and that the German object is only to prevent hostile airplanes from carrying out their observations".

The Germans therefore take no unnecessary chances and in the instance of giving away newly discovered secrets by losing planes across the lines it is even so. I recall how the English ^[[had]] just perfected a new wrinkle in scouts when a new airman landed in Germany by mistake and presented the Huns with the idea; and right here on our own front a month ago the 27th pilot, Lt. [[Regler ?]] who was seen from the sausages to have landed 

Transcription Notes:
Boelke should be spelled Boelcke I changed "If so ever as" to "It is even as" in the middle of the first paragraph--thomasc