Philip A Embury Journal #3

the rudder bar in front of me. All the machines that I had been in before the rudder wires had been connected to my rudder and run back inside of the selle, but these were on the outside of the selle. My landing after I finally got back to the field was pretty poor, but I didn’t break anything. I had never been up in such weather before. I had made up my mind that I wouldn’t try another trip that day, but when I landed they flagged me off again, and so off I went, or at least started. I didn’t get very far for I chevalled, and only saved smashing the ship, like Larry

Higgins did, by cutting my contact and killing the motor. Some mechanics came out and turned me around and cranked the motor and I got off O.K. and made two more trips with both good landings. The lieutenant in charge was enough to get anyone rattled and make him loose his head. He kept waving his arms like a darn fool and saying, now if you do this you will be killed sure. Did you see that, speaking of someone up in the air, if he does that again he is a goner. He kept that kind of a line of chatter going all the time until finally

I walked away so as not to listen to him. He was getting my “goat” and I knew if I listened to him much longer that I wouldn’t have nerve enough to try flying again. He lached all of us but Townsend who made one bad landing. When we left he made us feel a little better by saying thank you fellows for your work. Lieut. Spane said that if I brought you out here this afternoon in this wind that I wouldn’t have a machine left, and there wasen’t a wire broken or an axel bent. A very good record.”’

Wednesday July 10 ‘18.

Didn’t fly today, wind & rain

Dan Currier came back after smashing his second machine on voyage. Herb. Kendall left for Paris.

Thursday July 11, '18.

Lt. Kelly was killed on the field this evening in a Nieuport.

Friday July 12 ‘18.

Still stormy. Had an inspection by the inspector general in the rain this afternoon. I am mighty anxious to get out of here. We are being “ridden” as if we were Boche prisoners, or even worse. I can now see why some officers only go over the top once, and never come back.

Saturday. July 13 ‘18.

Put in the whole fornoon

flying and finished B1. It was very rough about noon time, but I enjoyed every minute that I was up. I went up for a half hours air work, and while on a little trip of my own I saw a machine going down on a forced landing. I spiraled down and looked him over. It was Boggie Roberts coming back from his cross country. He made a good landing, and went by. Boggie was five days in making his voyage.

Percy Brown finished B1 this morning and started on his voyage this afternoon.

He started out with a rotary