July 2, 1917
Air War:
1020 German ace Manfred von Richthofen, flying Albatros D.V 1177/17, shoots down RE.8 A3538 for victory number 57. Sgt Hubert Arthur Whatley and 2nd Lt Frank Guy Buckingham Pascoe are both killed.
Quote:
I attacked the foremost plane of an enemy squadron. The observer collapsed with the first shots. Shortly thereafter , the pilot was mortally wounded. The RE reared up and I fired on the rearing aircraft from a distance of 50 metres with a few more shots until flames shot out of the machine and the opponent crashed burning.
-Manfred von Richthofen.
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1025 German pilot Gisbert Wilhelm-Groos, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down RE.8 A3249 for victory number 3. Cpt W.P. Harsley is killed. 2nd Lt A.G. Knight is wounded.
1030 Canadian RFC ace Albert Godfrey, in Nieuport 17 B1684, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 8. Ltn Hans Forstmann is killed.
1230 English RNAS pilot Charles Philip Oldfield Bartlett, flying DH.4 N5967 with AGL S.D. Sambrook as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.
1245 English RFC pilot Richard Trevethan and observer Campbell Hoy, in FE.2d A6523, shoot down an Albatros D.III. Victory number 3 for Trevethan, number 2 for Hoy.
2030 English RFC pilot John Barlow, in Nieuport 23 A6771, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.
North Atlantic Ocean, west of Ireland:
Otto von Schrader, commanding
UC-31, sinks British freighter SS
Thirlby, 2,009 tons, bound from Seville for Garston with a load of cooper ore. His score is now 35 ships and 37,480 tons.
Norwegian Sea:
Carl-Siegfried von Georg, in
U-57, uses his deck gun to sink Swedish fishing smack
Mayflower, 55 tons; northeast of the Shetland Islands. His score is now 40 vessels and 41,069 tons.
Alfred Götze, in
U-86, uses his deck gun to sink Swedish fishing vessel
Bessie, 66 tons. This is his first sinking.
North Sea:
Martin Schelle, in
UC-33, uses his deck gun to sink two British drifters off Sumburgh Head at the southernmost tip of the Shetland Islands:
Genera Buller, 72 tons.
Hamnavoe, 57 tons.
Schelle's score is now 36 vessels and 35,600 tons.
Mediterranian Sea:
Otto Schultze, in
U-63, scuttles Italian barque
Argentario, 739 tons; south of Sardinia. His score is now 22 ships and 110,683 tons.
Hans Wendlandt, in
UB-47, sinks Japanese freighter
Shinsan Maru, 3,312 tons, hauling a load of wheat from Karachi to Italy; between Crete and Malta. His score is now 7 ships and 13,869 tons.