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have been going up for a week) and we were warned for a call at 3:00A.M. 
I retired at 10 P.M. therefore and was subsequently aroused no less than 4 times by the presence of French archies and German Gothas. The Gothas let us in peace here and dropped their "eggs" elsewhere. The English Independant force went over time [[strikethrough]] through [[/strikethrough]] ^[[during]] the ^[[late and]] early hours and the amount of sleep I gained to catch up on my lack was very small indeed.

At 3:45 I was in my ship waiting for light to break enough to show the ground. Overhead was another German Gotha which was archied but dropped no bombs. 
At 4:00 o'clock I "gave my engine" (with its new carburetor) "the [[gun?]]" and found its