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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

CHAPTER III ( p
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030) be a test fight between a German Albatross, which had been captured intact, and one of our machines.

The fight was a failure, however, as just after they got up something went wrong with the radiator of the Albatross; but later Captain Little did some wonderful stunts on a triplane.

I also saw Robert Gregory there, but had no chance to speak to him.

But I learnt that he was doing very well and was most popular in the squadron, and that he had painted some fine scenery for their theatre.
St.Pol possessed an open-air swimming-bath, a strange thing for St.
Pol, but there it was--a fine large swimming-bath, full of warm water which came from some chemical works.

I used to swim there every evening when I got back from work.


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