Don Martin dairy entry for Friday, May 31, 1918:   Went to [AEF General Headquarters at] Chaumont with [Edwin] James [New York Times] . Arranged to go tomorrow to real battlefront.         The ‘real battlefront’ referred to the big German attack that had begun. The Germans had chosen to attack the line from Soissons to Rheims. Their big advance was shown in this map from the June 1, 1918, New York Herald.

Don Martin dairy entry for Thursday, May 30, 1918:   With [Edwin] James (whom I am getting to like a bit) went to Baccarat by way of Epinal. Had motor trouble which delayed us considerably. Returned by way of Nancy. Arrived Neufchateau at 8 p.m. Wrote cable for New York about [Leslie] Kirk and [William] Richards, English airmen who landed in German territory and made their way back to their own lines.         Don Martin finally got the kind of story he was looking for--the story of Kirk and Richards' plane downing and miraculous escape. Finished after midnight on Thursday and dated Friday, it was featured on page 1 of the Saturday, June 1, edition of the New York Herald. It is a great example of Don Martin’s storytelling skill that made his war dispatches so well received by his readers back home in America. 2 FLYERS FALL 10 MILES  INSIDE HUN LINE, ESCAPE Swim Ninety Foot River in No Man’s Land Under Heavy Machine Gun Fire DIG UNDER ELECTRIFIED WIRE, CLI