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leave anyway, what want is to "get" Huns and to keep our sector clear of 'em. ST. MIHIEL is at one end of our sector and incidentally is where Putnam and I hang out for "meat" - and we've got it there - generally around 5 P.M. (or 17 o'clock French time)
Firey and Pont-a-Mousson are favorite alerte places. A telephone call comes to the operations office; we get it and take to the haunt of the Hun that happens to be mentioned. The next explain themselves - except that the aerial route is becoming a reality - shipments of [[underline]] good [[/underline]] Liberty motored planes have been made for some time and yesterday one of my old mates (Ted Parsons) ferried a De Haviland (D.H.)  to a field a few miles from us [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] but I think the motor is the best part of the outfit.
The "return sometimes" refers to such as [[Malhues'?]] recent reappearance, and the "apply to 91st traffic manager" has reference to the operations officer of the 91st army observation squadron [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] who warns us when a protection

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confirmed Airco DH 4 aircraft designed by Geoffrey De Havilland deployed in 1918