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against Metz. That stronghold is a hot bed of forts and trenches and barbed wire and concrete and everything including commanding heights.......

After dinner gave Lt. Regan (ass't adjutant ^[[under Major Gallagher]] now that Lt. Reardon has gone) Lt Hands and Sgt Mooney (acting Sgt. Major of the 47th) hops in the Avro for an hour. It is wonderful when the bumpiness ^[[bumpiness]] dies down and the late setting sun goes to the last glow, especially while drifting like a hawk without fluttering a wing, in a plane that almost flies herself.