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 CHAPTER XI

HE strain from being cooped up in the small and stuffy quarters of the H-24 was beginning to tell on me and the blind way in which we had to man&oelig;uver did not make me care for the life so I bethought me it would be a nice change to get into the flying game.

Moreover my arm had begun to pain me considerably at times and so I determined to get a disability discharge. This was not a hard thing to do for any one with a heart need not be told that a man with a game arm should not be made to continue in active service if he didn’t want to.

Consequently in February I received my discharge and after seeing my folks I concluded it would be best to have my arm operated on to remove the stiffness. This I did and after the plaster casts that had been around it for a month were removed I was once again the