Excerpt from 639th Aero Squadron Book: Being a Record of the Squadron's Activities, With Brief Biographical Sketches of Its Members; Organized September, 1917; With A. E. F., January, 1918, to May, 1919; Demobilized June, 1919 Early the following morning, we were notified to make ready to land. All was confusion as we fixed our packs, took down our bunks, and policed our sec tion. At the appointed hour, every one of us was on deck awaiting our turn to pass down the plank from the ship that had brought us safely so many miles across the deep. At last, all the Aero Squadrons were aboard the Limy barge and we left the side of the Agamemnon, passed the Mt. Vernon and arrived at the landing quay. Many queer sights greeted us as we passed along the waterfront. Strange looking ships and stranger looking people confronted us. Among them we saw many German prisoners working about the docks loading freight upon peculiar and tiny French freight cars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.