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at 11 a.m. and that Cachy was the objective. At 9 a.m. while we were waiting for breakfast a squadron of hun planes came over flying low. There was a bit of a smash-up with a couple of ours, but none were brought down. They got away back to their lines, but the damage was done. They had taken their observations. We had breakfast, and about 10 minutes after a H.E. shell landed just outside our billets getting 2 tommies. Then they started to put over a lot of stuff, mostly shrapnel, but our crowd were exceedingly lucky and we never had any casualties. As no purpose could be served by
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