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Friday, April 12, 1918

Up on Spirals. The 15 Nieuport has a great tendancy to bree when a spiral is attempted. We are taught how to make the spiral on a fusilage or the ground before going up.

In the afternoon on my fifth spiral I pancake on my landing and crack my left lower wing on a cheval de bois

MacArthur MacClure & Monty. go on to altitude & Cross Country. Capt Walch O.C. entertains his father Gen. Walch for dinner in the evening. Wonderful spread at dinner. "Tinny" Windgate does some stunts

103

Saturday, April 13, 1918

Bad day for flying. Break off a tooth at breakfast on a piece of toast. Journey over Camp 3 for Dental care. Made date for Sunday 9A.M. Major Hartney tells me when we go to the front we will go to Maxey.

Say good by to Adj. Pierce who expects to transfer to headquarters at Tours. He is too used to luxuries of Civilization to enjoy roughing it.

In P.M. all Camp 5 goes over to main headquarters for a bath at the Croix Rouge Bathhouse. I ride part way back in a Switch engine. Over in evening and see poor Moy.