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is to be made. (And they make 'em often, too. The Americans are so new at the game they rush into it pell-mell - just as the doughboys fight with the vim of the new-comer who still retains his first wind. So these American observation squadrons must needs keep a machine in the air about all the time - with the result that most of the neophyte reports issued by observation headquarters say "Nothing to Report" or "plane was attacked ... far behind German lines.")
Some crude sentences are on the walls - soldier-fashion. Also the names of some of the fellows in the 94th and 95th - Davis, Cunningham, Smyth, Meissner, Eastman, Taylor, Hill, Winslow, Wentworth, Campbell - these boys have moved on and we've heard the sad news about more than one of them and the glad news about one or two of them ......