[Sailor Steve]

September 6, 1917

Air War:

0745 English RFC pilot Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Worley, flying a Bristol F.2b with 2nd Lt P.V. Burton as observer, shoots down a German two-seater and an Albatros D.V for victories number 1 and 2.

0800 Canandian RNAS pilot Wilfred Austin Curtis, in Sopwith Camel N6342, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

0910 German ace Walter Göttsch, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an unidentified Sopwith for victory number 15.

1335 Five RNAS Camel pilots share a victory over an Albatros two-seater:
Joseph Fall, Canada, B3898 victory number 16.
Sub-Lt J.E. Scott, unknown nation, B3908, unknown victory.
Harold Stackard, England, unknown serial number, number 6.
Hazel LeRoy Wallace, Canada, B3892, number 1.
Arthur Wood, England, B3984, number 3.

1335 English RFC pilot Russell Winnicott, in DH.5 A9218, shoots down an Albatros two-seater for victory number 1.

1402 German ace Otto Kissenberth, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 13.

1403 German pilot Otto Pelz, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 1.
(Two French SPADs were lost in this area - Sgt Henri Callinet, listed as Missing, and American Cpl Everett T. Buckley, fliying for N65, taken prisoner.

1535 German ace Werner Voss, in Fokker F.I 103/17, shoots down FE.2d B1895 for victory number 42. Lt John Oscar Pilkington and AM2 Herbert Frederick Williams are both killed.

1830 Two Italian pilots in SPAD VIIs share a victory over a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I:
Francesco Baracca, victory number 19.
Giovanni Sabelli, victory number 2.

German ace Paul Billik, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 7.

German pilot Dieter Collin, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Nieuport for victory number 5. Collin is also wounded during this fight.

Russian pilot Ivan Loiko, in a Nieuport 17, shoots down a two-seater for victory number 5.

German ace Eduard von Schleich, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Nieuport 12 for victory number 13.