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The operations at Chateau Thierry had afforded the first opportunity for our Air Service to act in organizations sufficiently large to retain their identity as fighting units and to begin [[strikethrough]] working out tactical combinations particularly applicable to our units. As a result of these experiences it was determined to break away from the usual Allied Tactics by placing the First Pursuit Group [[strikethrough]] under the direct command of the C.A.S., 1st Army [[strikethrough]] with the object of destroying the low flying German airplanes, thus perfecting more effectively our ground troops, and in addition to employ our squadrons in three flights at such a distance from each other that an attack on one could not disrupt the other two but still sufficiently close to be within supporting distance, tead [[instead]] of the usual V formation of the total sqdn.