[Sailor Steve]

September 5, 1917

Air War:

German 12-victory ace Walter Höhndorf is killed test-flying the second AEG D.I prototype (4401/17). The first prototype (no serial number) had crashed previously, and with this second incident the project was cancelled.

0800 Five RNAS Sopwith Camel pilots share a victory over an Albatros two-seater:
Fred Banbury, Canada, B3832, victory number 4.
Roy Brown, Canada, B3818, number 2.
Stearne Edwards, Canada, number 2.
Oliver Redgate, England s/n unknown, number 2.
Arthur Wood, England, B3897, number 2.

0906 German pilot Karl Steudel, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 4.

0955 German pilot Johannes Klein, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 2.

1000 German ace Kurt Wüsthoff, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 12.

1200 New Zealander RFC ace Keith Park and observer H. Lindfield, in Bristol F.2b A7182, shoot down an Albatros D.V. Victory number 13 for Park, number 3 for Lindfield. Sixteen days later, on September 21, the body of Ltn Franz Pernet washed ashore at Zeeland, The Netherlands. Pernet was the stepson of General Erich Ludendorff.

1430 German ace Werner Voss, flying Fokker F.I 103/17, shoots down Sopwith Pup B1842 for victory number 40. 2nd Lt Charles Walter Odell manages to crash safely on his own side of the lines.

1528 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down DH.4 A7530 for victory number 15. Lt J.W. Neill and 2nd Lt T.M. Webster are both listed as Missing.

1530 German pilot Joachim von Busse, in Albatros D.III 2052/16, shoots down Sopwith Camel B3777 for victory number 2. Lt J.C. Huggard is taken prisoner.

1550 German pilot Erich Löwenhardt, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Sopwith Pup for victory number 3.

1630 Werner Voss makes his second claime of the day, a Caudron G.6. MdL Jacques Thabaud-Deshoulières and Lt Marcel Mulard are both killed. It is also possible that this plane was brought down by Uffz Krause of Kest 3.

1820 English RNAS pilot Leonard Rochford, flying Sopwith Camel B3807, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 4.

1840 New Zealander RNAS pilot Harold Beamish, in Sopwith Camel N6377, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.

1845 New Zealander RFC pilot Clive Collett, in Sopwith Camel B6234, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 9.

1900 German pilot Dieter Collin, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 4.

1900 Two RFC SE.5a pilots share a victory over an Albatros D.V:
John bonnicher Crompton, Canada, A8918, victory number 1.
Spencer Horn, England, A8936, number 6.

1845 German ace Reinhold Jörke, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 6.

French pilot Michel Joseph Callixte Marie Coiffard, in a Nieuport, shoots down an Albatros two-seater for victory number 1.

German pilot Ludwig Hanstein, in an Albatros D.V, destroys a French observation balloon. Observer Lt Gadel is unharmed.

German pilot Theodor Rumpel shoots down a Morane-Saulnier 'P' for victory number 2. Sgt Maurice Leroux and Lt Pierre Goutier are both killed.

German ace Eduard von Schleich, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 12.

German ace Emil Thuy, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 9.