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With this general view of the situation in France, I shall describe what we did in that country.

Fortunately, just as I arrived at Paris, Marshal Fayolle, who is the Senior Inspector of the French military aviation, had called together all the superior officers of aviation for a genera; conference on the subject of the employment of air power, the organisation of the air forces, their training, mobilization in case of war, and the equipment which should be given them. This was the most important air conference, I think which has ever been held in Europe, and, as I commanded the combined air forces at Saint-Mihiel and the Argonne in 1918, Marshal Fayolle invited me to participate in their deliberations.

The manner in which these matters were studied consisted in selecting the air operations of the War which gave the best examples of the points they desired to study -- showing either how they should or should not be done. Certain officers were assigned to work up the data on these operations from the original documents. They prepared maps of each operation and explained in detail what each part of the air forces did. The operations studied were the German attack of the fifteenth of June which drove the French Sixth Army back to the line of the Marne, the French-American attack of the eighteenth of July, the French-American attack of the twenty-