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succeeded in burning both.  On this mission Lieutenant Luke, who brought down more balloons than any other individual in the war, failed to return.  As the conditions were extremely bad for observation planes, the pursuit was used for the purpose of observing the enemy movements in his area as far north as Steney.  They were entirely successful.  our Corps Observation planes were in contact throughout the greater part of the day with our front line positions.  In addition to these Infantry patrols, a large number of reconnaissance missions were carried out over the sector.

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   On the preceding afternoon, the 29th, the aviation of the First Army Corps had sent a special reconnaissance mission to investigate a reported concentration of troops between Montrebeau and Exermont.  One machine carried out this mission.  Although the observer was severely wounded by machine gun fire, he succeeded in obtaining information of the greatest importance, accurately located troops of a fresh enemy division massed for counter-attack, but dropped