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AMERICAN AIRMEN ON THE-SOMME.

A Visit to the Squadron.

With the French Army, Nov. 4.--I talked today to some of the I American airmen who are n working with the French Armies on the Somme. They arrived at their present quarters about a fortnight ago from the Verdon front. Binoe May, when the squadron was formed, they have between them accounted for 221 of the snemy's machines, at

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total cost to themeelves of two killed and three wounded. Five of the 22 have been brought down by Adjutsat Baonl L'alberry, who thus brooms what in French aviation slang is called All the men, one ofj whom ranks as an officer and the en sous-officers, are, of dourse, volunteers. Before joining the squadron they have gone through a ocarse in French arİN- tion schools, including one month devoted to fancy-flying, which is sn'obligatory subject, and they form a part of the French Army, ase French machines, and are under the orders of French diitera,

Just after I reached their osmp five of their blunt-nosed Nisuporta started ons after the other for the front near Paronne, a journey, including the time of the ascent, of six or seven minutes. (There

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one innocent-looking me- chine, not that day in commission, standing apart by itself while the mechanio attended to its toilet,. which a short time before had come from Paris, more than 65 miles off, in the inoredible time of 23 minutes.

It was not, as a matter of fact, a good day for flying, as there was a strongish wind, and, though the air below was unusually clear,

■ broad bank of clouds at" rather too low an altitude made observa- tion rather dificult. But the Americans, some of whom had only arrived two or three dayı before, wanted to learn their ground, and set off in spite of the weather more with that object. than in the hope of ecming across enemy machines. They all look- ed: to me an extraordinarily useful-f set of man, and fearless" as the young lion cab which has been adopted as the corpe mascot, and far more modest,

As those who had been out cams swooping back from their two-hour trips, deliberately clear- ing the tops of the trees round the camp, or the machines stand- ing on the ground by what looked like inches, they gave some won- derfully neat displays of daring nose-dives and steep banking. and one and all were evidently complete masters of their work. But that is of coures. Til then they are not allowed to join the corps. Near st hand the

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air was in a constant `of commotion with the whirring of their motors, and in the clear distance, over the line between

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