September 4, 1917
Air War:
0805 German ace Kurt Wüsthoff, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down Nieuport 17 A6679 for victory number 10. 2nd Lt J.H. Binns is killed.
0825 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down RE.8 A3778 for victory number 14. Lt B.K.B. Barber and Pvt A.W. Brimell are both killed.
0830 German ace Eberhard Mohnicke, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Pup B2197 for victory number 7. Cpt C.C. Sharp is wounded and taken prisoner.
0840 German pilot Eberhard Stapenhorst, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 3.
0915 French/American ace Raoul Lufbery, flying a Nieuport, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 11.
0915 German ace Rudolf Matthaei, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Martinsyde G.100 for victory number 6.
0925 French ace Gustave Douchy and Cpt Victor Ménard, flying Nieuports, share a victory over a German two-seater. Number 8 for Douchy, number 4 for Ménard. This is Ménard's last victory, but his story is a fascinating one.
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0930 Five RFC pilots, in Sopwith Pups, share a victory over an Albatros two-seater:
Lt E. Armitage, B1837, unknown.
Lt C. Courtneidge, B1802, unknown.
Eric Yorath Hughes, Wales, B6188, victory number 1.
Charles Walter Odell, England, B1842, number 1.
Maurice Scott, England, B1843, number 6.
0940 American pilot Edwin Charles Parsons, flying a Nieuport for the French Air Service, shoots down a Rumpler teo-seater for victory number 1.
1045 Kurt Wüsthoff scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 11.
1120 German pilot Viktor Schobinger, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 4.
1450 English RFC pilot Henry Michael Moody, In a Sopwith Camel, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.
1540 French pilot Bernard Artigau, in a Nieuport, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 1.
1630 German ace Julius Schmidt, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down RE.8 A3778 for victory number 13.
1700 Rudolf Berthold scores his second kill of the day, shooting down an RE.8 for victory number 15.
1700 English RFC pilot Arthur Stanley Gould Lee, in Sopwith Pup B1777, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory numbe 1.
1900 English RFC observer Valentine St. Barbe Collins, in Bristol F.2b with 2nd Lt W.D. Bostock as pilot, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.
1935 French ace Georges Madon, in a Nieuport, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 16. German 6-victory ace Erich Hahn is killed.
1945 German ace Hans Bethge, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 15.
1950 Hans Bethge brings down a second Bristol F.2b for victory number 16.
2030 German ace Rudolf Wendelmuth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an SE.5 for victory number 6.
2140 Three RNAS pilots, in Sopwith Camels, share a victory over a DFW C.V:
Joseph Fall, Canada, B3898, victory number 15.
Sub-Lt J.E. Scott, B3907, unknown.
Harold Stackard, England, B6204, number 5.
French pilots Pierre Gustave Gaudermen and Sgt Baudry, both in Nieuports, share a victory over a German two-seater. Number 1 for both.
German ace Ludwig Hanstein, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 9.
French pilot Georges Lachmann, flying a SPAD VII, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 4.
Russian pilot Ivan Loiko, in a Nieuport 17, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.
German ace Eduard von Schleich, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 11.