[Sailor Steve]

November 22, 1917

Air War:

0840 German ace Otto Könnecke, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 9. This may have been B1747, 2nd Lt T.L. Atkinson POW.

0840 German pilot Josef Mai, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 4.

0910 German pilot Fritz Rumey, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel B6267 for victory number 3. Cpt G.B. Crole is wounded and taken prisoner.

1115 German ace Harald Auffarth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 7.

1130 German ace Rudolf Matthaei, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel B2366 for victory number 9. 2nd Lt E.P. Marchand is taken prisoner.

1140 Australian AFC pilot Richard Watson Howard, flying DH.5 A9294, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory numer 1.

1145 English RFC pilot James Child, in SE.5a B562, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 6.

1150 James Child scores his second victory of the day, shooting down a DFW C.V for number 7. Richard Howard's listing says that he shared this victory. Child's listings say he was alone.

1530 German pilot Rudolf Bertelsmeier, in an Albatros D.III on the Italian Front, shoots down an Hanriot HD.1 for victory number 4.

French pilot Albert René Chabrier, in a Nieuport, shoots down an "Enemy Scout" for victory number 1.

Australian AFC pilot Roy Cecil Phillipps, flying DH.5 A9288, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 1.

German pilot Franz Piechulek, probably in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down a Nieuport for victory number 1.

German pilot Hans von Puttkammer, probably in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down a Paul Schmitt for victory number 1.

Vfw Rausch (no first name given), in either an Albatros or a Pfalz, destroys an observation balloon for victory number 1.

German pilot Werner Wagener, probably in an Albatros D.III on the Southern Front, destroys an Italian observation balloon for victory number 5. This is Wagener's last aerial victory. He is wounded on November 25 and after that disappears from the records.