January 13, 1918
Air War:
0920 Irish RFC pilot George McElroy, flying SE.5a B598, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 2.
1107 German ace Heinrich Kroll, in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 16.
1130 Canadian RFC pilot John Victor Sorsoleil, in SE.5a B5463, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.
1158 German ace Josef Mai, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Bristol F.2b B1110 for victory number 6.
1230 German ace Fritz Rumey, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Bristol F.2b A7174 for victory number 7. 2nd Lt H.V. Biddington is taken prisoner; 2nd Lt J.H. Corbet is killed.
1240 German pilot Max Kraus, flying with Jasta 27, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 4.
1250 German pilot Günther Schuster, with Jasta 29, shoots down Sopwith Camel B5602 for victory number 3. 2nd Lt F.B. Wilmott is taken prisoner.
1328 German pilot Hans Schlömer, in an Albatros D.V, scores victory number 2. Schlömer claims a Bristol F.2b but this may have been Armstrong-Whitworth FK.8 B5826, Lt F.H. Hall wounded and Lt A.S. Balfour killed.
1425 English RFC pilot Thomas Colvill-Jones and observer Henry George Crowe, in Bristol F.2b B1122, shoot down a German two-seater. Victory number 3 for Colvill-Jones, number 1 for Crowe.
1637 German pilot Werner Steinhäuser, with Jasta 11, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 2.
German 4-victory pilot Eberhard Stapenhorst, in Fokker Dr.I 144/17 is brought down by anti-aircraft fire during a balloon attack and taken prisoner.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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