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    The Staff of the Air Service of the First Army, which handled these operations, consisted of five different sections, namely:

    An Operations Section, which provided for the plans and execution of all military operations against the enemy-where, how, and when the squadron, groups, wings, and brigades should be placed and work;
 
    An Information Section, which received and distributed all information to the various parts of our own Army, and to the Armies acting on our flanks;

    A Balloon Section, which handled the operation of all our balloons;

    A Materiel Section, which handled the construction of all airdromes, had the handling of all transportation of their supply, and the obtaining of all things which the different organizations would use, such as airplanes, gas, oil, ammunition, photographic material, radio equipment, and the thousand and one things pertaining to such a great force;

    The fifth section was the Administration Section, which handled all correspondence, replenishment of personnel, personnel records, and all routine matters relating to the pay and distribution of the men.

    The officers in charge of these various sections had been carefully trained for their work, and not only understood it themselves, but understood how to work with each other. The work which these officers did at the this time laid a foundation for our Air Service which continued throughout the remainder of the war, and which will continue in the future if maintained. 

    The Aviation Headquarters acted in the closest liaison with our Commander, General Pershing, and his Chief of Staff,-personal reports being made every morning, and oftener when required, as to the progress of operations, and excellent official and personal relations existed between all departments of the Staff of the First Army. And to those of us who had been in the Army of some years, nothing gave us greater satisfaction than to see the seriousness, the method, the co-operation, and the industry which each department maintained. If any one was at fault, he saw it immediately, and was perfectly free to acknowledge it, and immediately attempted to rectify it. With such men to work with, there is nothing too difficult to do in a military way. 

    While group after group of the airplanes from the different nations were going to their appointed places behind the line which had been prepared by our construction squadrons for their reception, and were carefully hidden inside of the hangars so as to

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