pretty punk squad, we carry right thro. Take a truck load to Hospital corner. Jim in charge of Hospital corner - he is no good for a rush - volunteer to go back to R.A.P & get in Dutch with my squad. Herb & I take out a case to Hospital corner stay awhile, 100 boys of the 44th went over in the raid & we have handled 39 wounded 10 killed & 11 missing, Raid a failure from my point of view. the boys blame our artillery for it. Sat Mar 17 St Patricks day. We carry out for No 4 squad to the Corner Saw some fearfull aerial fight. Heinie is boss up there just at present. He has a red machine, I saw it bring down three of ours all in flames inside two hours. one quite close to us with about 10 shots.
Sunday Mar 18 Do a little wash Write Belle. leave for R.A.P at 6 P.M. Bert & I stay behind for rations, Bart is late. Kind S.S.S. 2 cans pork & beans, butter, & milk & some bread to last us
