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August 12th.
"B" Flight is with "C" flight now and we're making our start as Hun crashers. Day before yesterday Captain Bridgeman got his first official Bosche and this morning Lieutenant MaCormick downed his first.

Captain Bridgeman I admire for his high ideals concerning war and life; and since May 1916 he has been in this game, a conscientious hard working aviator if there ever will be a true record taken by his particular angel. I firmly believe that he has a number of Germans to his credit but he is the kind of man who would say he had more simply because he has no official proof of his victims. He has a right to wear the