At eight o'clock this morning, five planes of B Flight were on the line.
B Flight was seen to circle the field in climbing; then they headed directly across the field for the front lines.
"The chief of the air corps told me that you're working on this massacre of B Flight," the general said.
Everyone on B Flight was now looking fearfully at Joe for King.
Lambert was the first of B Flight to start up.
All left at once except "B" Flight which followed on the 10th.
Libby's B Flight was thrown into the resulting breach, but suffered no losses.
He came aboard as leader of B Flight on 19 April 1917.
With 80 combat missions completed he was made commanding officer of B Flight at the age of 22.
The unit stayed there until February when it was replaced by the B Flight.