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crashing or burning.

At Longwy, by the way, Vernam was dying and we knew it not. He had "got" his balloon, then was downed by a Fokker on his way back. He died at Longwy [[strikethrough]] Oct 30th [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Dec 1 at]] a month after he was shot down on October 30th.
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At Luxembourg the French had come upon the heels of the retreating Germans. The doughboys came on the heels of the joyful poilus.

German spoken with preference to French. We were much overcharged. Mark should have been worth 65 centimes; instead the people of Luxembourg were keeping it to 1 and 1/4 francs (May 20th 2 marks for 1 franc!)

Allys remind one of [French?] towns