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experience and training obtained during the St. Mihiel attack, demonstrated thoroughly the efficiency of low pursuit. At no time did their patrols exceed an altitude of one thousand meters, and in addition to furnishing excellent protection for corps and divisional planes and for our ground troops by the destruction of enemy low flying airplanes, six successful attacks were carried out against enemy balloons.

The First Wing encountered little opposition in conducting their regular patrols, and as a consequence special missions were carried out to a depth of from 12 to 15 kilometers within the enemy territory by the group in reserve by which method a large number of enemy planes were brought to combat. On these missions successful attacks were made against enemy troops and convoys.

Our day bombardment was sent out on two raids: the first in the early morning against the town of Dun-Sur-Meuse, on which three tons of bombs were dropped, causing a large fire which continued to burn all day, the second in the afternoon against Etain. While both raids were successful in reaching their objectives and dropping their bombs, it was the first time that the new method of protecting observation by pursuit by assembling at rendezvous points had been tried out. In spite of the fact that the most careful instructions had been given for the morning raid, the cooperation by the pursuit was not successful, as a consequence bombardment was heavily attacked by enemy pursuit and 5 planes were lost. Profiting by mistakes in this case, cooperation for the afternoon raid was perfect. The enemy pursuit was encountered and attacked while still well away from the bombing formation, and they were able to complete the entire raid without being attacked.