[Sailor Steve]

May 10, 1917

Air War:
0655 English RFC pilot Thomas Middleton, flying Bristol F.2a A3350 with 2nd Lt C.A. Malcolmsen as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 3.

0730 English RNAS ace Charles Booker, in Sopwith Triplane N5482, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 8.

0730 English RNAS ace Robert Compston, in Sopwith Triplane N5471 shares a victory over an Albatros D.III with S/L E.A. Bennets in N5442. Number 6 for Compston.

0740 German ace Karl Allmenröder, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Pup A6178 for victory number 11. Lt T.H. Wickett is wounded and taken prisoner.

0750 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Pup A7303 for victory number 22. 2nd Lt Daniel Josheph Sheehan is killed.

1005 French ace René Dorme, flying SPAD VII S392, shoots down an Albatros two-seater for victory number 23.

1030 French ace Jean Casale, in a Nieuport, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 8. Sharing the kill is a Sgt Legendre.

1100 Italian ace Fulco di Calabria, in a SPAD VII, shoots down a "Scout" for victory number 6.

1230 German ace Heinrich Gontermann, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 19. Adj Célestin Sanglier is listed as Missing.

1450 English RFC pilot Kelvin Crawford, flying DH.5 A2581, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 5. This seems to be the first kill obtained in the new aircraft with the reverse-stagger wing.

1500 German pilot Fritz Krebs, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 1.

1505 German ace Hermann Göring, in Albatros D.III 2049/16, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 7.

1510 German pilot Walter Blume, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 1.
These three planes were all from No. 55 Squadron:
A7413, Cpt N. Senior killed, Cpl P.H. Holland wounded.
A7416, Lts B.W. Pitt and J.S. Holroyde, both killed.
A7419, 2nd Lt T. Webb and AM` W. Bond, also said to have been hit by AA fire.
It is impossible to know for sure which British plane was brought down by which German pilot.

1640 English RFC pilot William Arthur Bond, flying Nieuport 17 B1545, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

1640 Irish RFC pilot Robert Gregory, in Nieuport 17 B1548, shoots down an unidentified Albatros for victory number 7.

1820 Heinrich Gontermann gains his second victory of the day, shooting down a Letord three-seater for number 20. French 5-victory ace Cpt Didier Le Cour Grandmaison is killed, along with gunner Cpl Joseph Crozet. Gunner Sgt Alfred Boyé, though wounded in the head, manages to land the aircraft on his own side of the lines.

Italian ace Francesco Baracca, in a Nieuport, shoots down a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I for victory number 10.

Galicia-born Austro-Hungarian ace Godwin Brumowski, in Hansa-Brandenburg D.I 28.10, shoots down a Voisin for victory number 6.

French ace Gustave Douchy, flying a Nieuport, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 7.

Three Russian pilots, all in Nieuport 17s, share a victory over an unidentified Fokker:
Aleksandr Kazakov, number 7.
Ernst Leman, number 2.
Cpt Polyakov, unknown.



Australian RNAS ace Robert Little, in Sopwith Triplane N5493, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 16.

North Atlantic Ocean:
Ernst Hashagen, commanding U-62, sinks two ships southwest of Ireland:
French sailing ship Berangere, 2,851 tons, bound from Buenos Aires for Le Havre with a load of lumber; deck gun.
Norwegian sailing vessel Gazelle, 288 tons, en route from Saint Marc, Haiti to Le Havre with a load of logwood.
Hashagen's score is now 27 ships and 38,820 tons.



English Channel:
Ralph Wenninger, in UC-17, sinks Norwegiean freighter SS Veni, 654 tons, carrying a load of coal from Newport, Wales to Saint Malo. His score is now 70 ships and 86,802 tons.

Georg Gerth, in UC-61, sinks two ships off Portland Bill:
British freighter SS Broomhill, 1,392 tons, en route from Penarth to Sheerness with a load of coal.
Norwegian freighter SS Minerva, 518 tons, travelling in ballast from Caen to Swansea.
Gerths score is now 12 ships and 12,720 tons.



North Sea:
His Majesty's Trawler Lord Ridley, 215 tons, hits a mine laid off Whitby by Gustav Deuerlich in UC-40. His score is now 5 vessels and 3,994 tons.

Karsten von Heydebreck, in UC-63, scuttles Dutch auxiliary motor sailing vessel Gruno, 171 tons, en route from Rotterdam to London with a general cargo. His score is now 8 vessels and 2,487 tons.



Balearic Sea:
Johannes Klasing, in U-34, scuttles Spanish schooner Carmen,319 tons, carrying a load of wine and dried figs from Valencia to Cette; south of Barcelona. His score is now 14 vessels and 13,105 tons.



Tyrhennian Sea:
Ernst von Voigt, in UC-35, sinks Italian sailing vessel Leone XIII, off Marettimo Island. His score is now 12 vessels and 34,402 tons.