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sixth of September, and the French-American attack of the twenty-seventh of October. The presentation of the facts relating to each operation took about a day, which was followed by a day's discussion. At the end of the conference, five days' discussion took place.

It will be remembered that the organization of the French aviation at that time consisted of an air division of from six hundred to eight hundred airplanes, about half of which were day bombardment planes capable of carrying approximately four hundred and fifty pounds of bombs each, and the other half were pursuit planes. The air division could turn out for any given action about sixty per cent of this total, or from four hundred to five hundred airplanes — half bombardment and half pursuit. In addition to these, they had a couple of groups of night bombardment equipped with airplanes each capable of carrying about a thousand pounds of bombs. Each group usually was able to turn out about forty to fifty airplanes for duty on any one night. Each ground army in line had a certain number of pursuit groups assigned to it for its own local protection. The number of these groups assigned to the armies varied from one to three and consisted of from forty to sixty airplanes each. The armies had one or more squadrons of army observation which were used for long distance reconnoissance and gradually, during the Summer of 1918, for night reconnoissance because from

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