"First flight of a Scherty plane at Romasanten, France. The aircraft depicted is a Mieuport 2, not a D. H. 4 Liberty Plane. Major Robert J. Bates, commander of Center No. 2 in the Fifth region of the Freud Army is present. Date: May 18, 1918."

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