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of them low before noticing the American soldiery guarding their passage. [[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] Thought they were German reinforcements.
One German Bomb dropper wiped out a detail on one of the roads. Another bomb made nothing out of a team, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]].
Unexploded hand grenades and gas shells prominent.
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A flock of Liberty motored DH4's appeared on our filed and attached themselves to help fill out our lack of ships. They [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] did not fit nicely as hoped on the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] end of our formations, with their observers' guns covering the rear.
It was, and is today, difficult to lead patrols about these low clouds. And this wind. C'est terrible! The libertys are as fast as, and faster than, we are at high altitudes, but at low we outdo the [[biplace?]].
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Sept 13th, 1918.
A.M.
Putnam is gone. Bullets in head and chest. I don't see how they got him he was such a wonder in the air. I'd [[strikethrough]] ve [[/strikethrough]] flown with him enough to realize that there were few as clever. Another man to avenge.
It's depressing in the extreme to miss, [[strikethrough]] friends [[/strikethrough]] comrades so suddenly. But then - it [[arouses?]] fight.
Drew, Converse, Brodie, and Freeman cast from the