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Charles E. H. Bates Family Correspondence, 1922-1923
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to fire the third which will be held at night and is known as Night Battle Practice. It is a very difficult practice and therefore requires a lot of preliminary training whereas other practices are less intense and one does not worry over them so much.
However all of this will be over in a month and then we will "knock off" for a while preparatory to our cruise to the Carribean and the West Indies in January.