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St. Mihiel. He was with Lieut. MaCormick and made for the puffs, finding two biplane Hun machines which they fell upon pronto. The ensuing fight lasted 25 minutes and we saw them in their weird manoeuvres for the period--until one went down in flames, a semi-horrible sight, [[underlined]] semi[[/underlined]] because we hated to think of [[underlined]] that [[/underlined]] happening to one of our own.

Well, it seems that the Captain had downed the flaming bus and had then turned his attention to the fight between the other machine engaged with Lieutenant McCormick. Both our men were nearly spent ^[[spent]] in