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VISUAL RECONNAISSANCE
Visual reconnaissance was to be carried out night and day, the former by the 9th Night Reconnaissance Squadron, the French Night Bombardment Group; the latter by the Army Observation Group and when necessary by special details from the French Aerial Division, in order to report concentrations or a movement toward a possible withdrawal of the enemy between the lines mentioned above and the Spincourt-Thionville-Boulay line. The special details covering these missions were to be received in instructions from G-2.

Four command planes were stationed at Maulan, five kilometers from Ligny-en-Barrois, for the purpose of performing special reconnaissance missions, as ordered by the Army Chief of Staff. The dropping ground was established at Moulaincourt for the receipt of the messages. 

Constant liaison was to be maintained, telephones, radio and messengers, between the Pursuit Groups, the Army Observation, the Corps Observation, the Anti-Aircraft, the Corps Chiefs of Air Service, and the Chief of Air Service of the Army.

ARMY ARTILLERY AND ARMY CORPS, AIR SERVICE
These were to conduct the photographic and visual reconnaissance ordered by the Army Artillery and Army Corps to approximately the line Regny-sur-Moselle---Vigneulles-Etain. Also the spotting of artillery targets and all adjustments or registrations required. 

In order to draw the attention on of the enemy Air Service and to make it appear that the attack might be expected from that quarter from the salient, the Chief of Air Service of the 8th French Army stationed on our right had been requested to make a demonstration to the east of the Moselle River.