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the scoffed at (by Germany) U[[S?]]. Army did its bit.

I looks as though this particular sector were to receive some close attention from these trained troops soon. More strategy I suppose. The natural defenses - as witness Mont Sec which cost the French [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[more than 25000 men to hold 15 minutes -- are so dense in the St. Mihiel salient that it would cost dear to push [[underlined]] this [[/underlined]] depression out.

The clouds were low and nefarious all day today and "C" Flight attempted two patrols with but little success in either. On the first Lt. Russell and I followed Lt. Putnam along the lower layer of vapor and at 2000 ms we went over the lines near Flissy (which after my inspection of yesterday had a particularly interest for me) and we were severely

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