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an enemy machine. After an hour and three quarters in the air (an hour at the lines discounting the time it took to join my leader) we spotted three monoplane machines [[strikethrough]] about the [[/strikethrough]] a mile below. We [[signed?]] to the attack and things then and there began to happen.

Lt. Putnam engaged one of the planes which singled out of the formation. I continued to the right and dove on the other two firing directly at them at a range running from 300 to 100 meters.
And then, naturally my gun jammed its most serious out of four jams, and there I was!

I saw Putnam busin'n time to my left and in front of me passing at right angles was a Phaltz biplane that, thank the