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credited to me. It seems that an observer from the 91st observation squadron spotted a crash about a mile from where I reported the fight and his finding with my and Putnam's reports made the event successful ^[[in its]] [[strikethrough]]cu[[/strikethrough]] culmination. So the sky was suddenly bright for me, the devil was dead indeed, and I'm in love, Major congratulated me as did my comrades and it was fine to feel that I was first of all [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[our]] crowd of originals to get a Hun alone. Just to show how much I appreciate the happy event I'm just naturally going to donate a case of good champagne to some dinner this week, of course.

The whole day was changed for the better in accord with the