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<p>a4701833.html</p><p>3/ numbers) A.I.F., well, that'll do us all & help to bring this awful carnage to an end. It's the "Yankee" planes also that are being looked eagerly for by our side & [aa-?] guess Fritz & his Devil's own'll know what fighting means ere the business is cried off. Our own few 'planes with our own wonderful pilots & observers have already made fame for themselves & for us during their short while @ the Front. It was, I believe, von Richtofen's "circus" which bumped the "Aussie" airmen 'down below' & tried their old capers only to come the proverbial Richtofen himself was brought down by one of our Infantry Lewis gunners, but the AIF did not get any newspaper limelight for that stunt, nor have we who came so unexpectedly from 'down below' to these parts been 'mentioned', yet if I could, I'd sure open your eyes as to what the presence of the AIF's "Immortal First" has accomplished here. Ah yes, it does sometimes appear as if we are the only mob who have "guernseys", but I s'pose the more work more honor'll have to do us for an XQQ</p><p>Big things have been doing along the new battle front not far from here & the "drumfire" bombardments have been awful to listen to, even as far back as this is. At night the vibration has been very pronounced & the Hun 'planes add to the 'thuds' when the nights are favorable. I'm sleeping so well on these lovely beds that he'd have to drop an "egg" right on our tin bow-roof B4 I'd wake.</p><p>Not far from here is a large aerodrome from & to which 'planes are coming & going all day & night. Some of the [?] fly just over our heads & the pilot<s>s</s> & observer looks very near. It's just grand to watch them as they manœuvre over the pretty field & hills & one cannot help envying him their nerves & coolness. S'pose the old adage applies to them also 'familiarity breeds contempt'?</p><p>From our Hill, (where the Hosp is also built or laid out) a great view is had of the surrounding country when the air is clear. Newly sown fields of grain are now looking @ their best & the lovely green is very pleasant. All the trees & hedges have their Spring 'clothes' on & one can hardly imagine the drabness of just a few weeks ago.</p><p>Looking Nor'east, the large & well known Town of S-----O--- is plainly seen nestling amongst the low hills & the pretty fields & trees The two prominent Cathedral Towers look whitish in the gleam of sunlight - one the ruined Cathedral of Napoleon's time & the other it's successor, I</p><p> </p><p>PTO to (1) [in bottom left hand margin]</p>