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III MY FIRST SCRAP
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The early days in the Toul Sector1 are remembered by the aviators3 in the observation end of the game as quiet ones. All the time I was there with the Americans I had never even seen a Boche plane. I understand they were around all right, but all of our young pursuit pilots of the 94th and 95th Squadrons were so determined4, individually, to become the first American Ace5 that they scoured6 the sky from daylight to dusk, and to such a degree of success that the Boche thought it rather risky7 to even leave their own airdrome.
About the middle of June the Rainbow Division was down in the Bacarrat-Lunéville Sector and having been there some time without aviation, it was decreed that the 12th Aero Squadron, which had done most remarkable8 work in the Toul Sector, should proceed at once to a little place called Flin, near Bacarrat, to work with the 42nd Division—the Rainbow—in order that they might have more experience in aerial co?peration.
We still had our famous old A.R. training busses, although we had been again promised everything from Spads to Salmsons. So, with our eighteen 51pilots and eighteen observers and our eighteen A.R. busses we started for our new station, which was about one hundred and fifty kilometers distant.
We were supposed to begin work on the following day, just as in actual battle, for we were simulating a real, active battle move. Our trucks left in the afternoon about three o’clock and without mishap9, should have arrived there about midnight. The planes were to wait until the next morning and fly down. The truck train got there all right, and got busy fixing up quarters and getting ready for immediate10 operations. We expected to see our famous eighteen planes arrive in a well organized, close formation at about eleven o’clock that morning, but at eleven they did not arrive and we heard nothing from them until about three o’clock, when one of our young pilots came from somewhere out of the sky and landed. We asked about the other seventeen, to which question he showed the greatest surprise, and explained that he had been detained by motor trouble and had been unable to get off with the main formation which had taken off four or five hours before him. Immediately 
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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     chateau 
      
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     trenches 
      
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     artillery 
      
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     lieutenant 
      
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     perfectly 
      
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     shack 
      
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     ribs 
      
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     miller 
      
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     infantry 
      
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     fully 
      
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     peeved 
      
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     appease 
      
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     inquiry 
      
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     wrath 
      
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     mighty 
      
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     deference 
      
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     poker 
      
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     enlisted 
      
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     idol 
      
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     ordnance 
      
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     scout 
      
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     iota 
      
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