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the field, (2) the major's car was moving along that same road at that same time.  The plane scraped the top of the Cadillac and bumped it off the road.  Carr managed to land unhurt, and the occupants of the car likewise excaped injury.  But Major Anderson was understandably annoyed.  Carr left the squadron a few days later.  We all liked him and were sorryb to see him let out.  To us it seemed that the chauffeur of the car had been at least as much to blame as Carr.  That is the sort of thing that happens to men in the army.

On their test flights our pilots developed a habit of landing for a brief visit at Amanty, their olf home. The practice became such a nuisance that Major Anderson issued an order forbidding our pilots to land anywhere except at Ourches, except in real emergencies.  On June 6th I was sent up with a pilot named Curphy to test the radio set that had been newly installed in his plane.  In the air I exchanged a few signals with our radio crews on the ground.  Then I reported to Curphy that the set was working properly, and proceeded to roll up the aerial.  Curphy said "Let's go over to Amanty, to see if we have any mail." I replied that he knew the major's order, and that we had better not.  He said "Hell, nobody's going to report us.  We'll only be gone a few minutes".  So we went to Amanty.  In landing there, Curphy had the misfortune to hit the ground at too steep an angle.  He wiped off our landing wheelsand we were lucky to escape with only minor bruises.  When we got out Curphy said to me "You go and telephone the squadron.  Ask them to send a car to get us".  It was obvious that we would need ground transportation, and that Curphy's plane would have to be hauled back to Ourches for repairs.  I told him to do his own telephoning, and he did.  When a car from Ourches finally came for us, one of my friends, Ed Wagner, had come for the ride.  He told me that an order had just come through directing me and two other observers of the 88th to report to the French School of Air Gunnery at Cazaux.

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