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Show FRENCH SQUADRONS KEEP WAR NUMBERS According to information received yesterday yes-terday by La Mar Nelson from Captain pitault, "commander of Kscadrille 3. to which organization Mr. Nelson formerly belonged, France has not yet demobilized its aviation s madrons, and bombardment bombard-ment groups still retain their secret sector sec-tor numbers used while on duty in Germany. Ger-many. The writer says that a book was I being published of the deeds of the squadron. squad-ron. 1 Tii is squadron when organized contained con-tained t went y-eight flying officers, Mr. Nelson being one of them. Only three we Hie left in" Cue squadron at the end of the war, the ot hers being either killed or wounded, making it necessary for a I replacement of twenty-five new men in the organization before it proceeded lo Genua n'- The squadron was credit ed with downing thirteen machines and rc-! rc-! cetveel three citations as a 'squadron. |