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stroying the enemy's Air Service, attacking his troops on the ground, and of protecting our own air and ground troops. The special missions of each branch of the Air Service were to continue under the general instructions as laid down at the beginning of the first day's battle. In carrying this out, and in order to cover more in detail, a sector of reconnaissance of the army corps aviation was to coincide with the front of their respective corps, but was to also include the overlapping of 2 kilometers on the neighboring corps, to right and left. The greatest attention was to be paid to minute reconnaissance of the enemy lines. The First Army Observation Group was charged with paying particular attention to the movements of enemy reserves from the back areas toward the front of the First Army.
The 2nd French Army Observation Group, in addition to the carrying out of the general plan of observation that had been specified, were to carry out a special reconnaissance during the night of September 26 and 27, of all enemy movement between the