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excellent so we patrolled from Loupmont to Nancy, watched five allied observation machines get severely archived, and at 1:10 I saw one lone [[strikethrough]] [[?]] monoplace come up to our level of 4200 meters, give us the once over and disappear "toot sweet" into his own.
"Us" by that time was made up of myself, Lt. Tyndall and Lt. Jones [[hand-drawn illustration shows formation of three aircraft - image]]
I got suspicious and turned back toward Flirey when I saw one of our balloons just going into the heavens.
When I got near the balloon position what should I see but a ^[[lone]] Hun diving at this one balloon.
I looked for his protection, saw none, and dived like mad, for if I could I wanted to prevent this particular Hun from cleaning