[Sailor Steve]

November 20, 1917

Air War:

0800 Three RFC DH.5 pilots share a victory over an Albatros two-seater:
Arthur Claydon, England, A9300, vicrtory number 1.
Lt A.L. Cuffe, B4924, victory number unknown.
Walter Tyrell, Ireland, B4916, number 4.

0840 German pilot Josef Mai, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel B5159 for victory number 3.

1050 German ace Erwin Böhme, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Belgian Nieuport 27 for victorynumber 23. 1st Sgt Leon André Robert Ciselet is killed.

German pilot Rudolf Bertelsmeier, in an Albatros D.III on the Italian front, shoots down an SAML S.2 for victory number 3.

German pilot Ltn Kirscht (no first name given), in an Albatros D.III on the Macedonian front, shoots down a Nieuport for his only victory. No other information exists about this pilot.

German pilot Otto Splitgerber, flying an Albatros D.III on the Macedonian front, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 5.

Scottish ace pilot David Sidney Hall and Irish ace observer Edward Patrick Hartigan set out out on a weather reconnaissance mission in their DH.4, and do not return. Three days later their bodies are found in their wrecked aircraft. The cause of the crash is unknown, but given the state of the weather on this day it seems likely they were caught in a storm.

English ace Thomas Frederick Stephenson is killed when his Bristol F.2b is hit by ground fire. Observer Lt William Morse survives the crash and is captured.