Dud for flying today. After all the work done on her, Babygirl's guns are out of alignment. Had her taken down to the range to be put up on blocks and I and the armorer got them zeroed in again.
We expected Pershing this morning but, as usual when he's expected, he didn't show.
A bunch of us got a wild hair to go up to the Front, so we took the Hudson to Lucy-le-Boucage, 2,000 yards from the Boche Lines back of Belleau Woods. The town was heavily shelled since our last visit. Went up to the 75mm gun positions of the 101st F.A. (Massachusetts) and watched them spending some hate (1). They said they drop 800 shells per night into the German Lines. All the Yankee Division is up there now. One of the non-coms told us we were "crazy as bed bugs to go up in those contraptions." We agreed with him, he's perfectly right.
(1) spending some hate - Hate was a term used to describe regularly scheduled bombardments, usually morning hate or evening hate.
