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grand activity in the nature of smoke, etc was clearly seen for many miles.
The Americans evidently took advantage of the good days for we passed several patrols of Spads and Salmsons.
Just after [[strikethrough]] passing [[/strikethrough]] noticing one of the former going in the direction of Nancy and while ^[[we]] were in the sun proceeding towards Port-à-Mousson from Bey (the end of our sector) a dark coloured biplane suddenly appeared to my right and below. It must have been waiting for the departure of the other formation we'd seen by its action we evidently surprised it. 
At any rate the ^[[plane which I now know enough to recognize as a]] Hun made a quick turn and explosive bullets from the observer began to come my way.