[Sailor Steve]

March 10, 1918

Swedish pilot John-Allan Hygerth becomes the first commander of the Finnish Air force.

0730 German pilot Karl Hertz, flying with Jasta 50, shoots down Sopith Camel B9147 for victory number 1. 2nd Lt E.P.P. Edmonds is wounded and taken prisoner.

1130 Two RFC Camel pilots share a victory over a DFW C.V:
Sidney Joseph Cottle, England, B6354, victory number 1.
Richard Dawes, Canada, B6412, victory number 5.

1210 German ace Hans Bethge, in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down DH.4 A7719 for victory number 20. 2nd Lt J.N.B. McKim and Lt C.H.R. Ffolliott are both killed.

1215 English RFC pilot George William Francis Darvill, in DH.4 B9435 with Sgt A. Pollard as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1305 German ace Kurt Wüsthoff, in an OAW-built Albatros D.III, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 27. Lt B.A. Cooke is wounded.

1315 Four RNAS Camel pilots claim an Albatros D.V at this time. though not listed as a shared victory, only one Albatros was brought down in this fight, killing German 13-victory ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke:
Frederick John Shaw Britnell, England, B7251, victory number 1.
William Chisam, England, B7223, victory number 3.
Aubrey Ellwood, England, B7229, victory number 5.
Arthur Whealy, Canada, B7220, victory number 10.

1400 Brazil-born English RFC pilot Gordon Rule and English observer Philip Holligan, in DH.4 A7705, shoot down an LVG two-seater. Victory number 2 for both.

1415 English RFC pilot Maurice Le Blanc-Smith, in Sopwith Camel B55572, shoots dow a Fokker Dr.I for victory number 1.

1420 English RFC pilot Edwin Clear, in SE.5a C5325, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 2.

1420 German pilot Franz Hemer, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel C6719 for victory number 3. 2nd Lt C.H. Flere is taken prisoner.

1425 English RFC pilot George Stacey Hodson, flying Sopwith Camel B7291, shoots down a Fokker Dr.I for victory number 1.

1545 English RNAS pilot Walter Hinchliffe, in Sopwith Camel B7190, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 2.

1745 German ace Adolf von Tutschek, in Fokker Dr.I 404/17, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 27. Adj Eugène Vallod is listed as Missing.

Australian RFC pilot Geoffrey Hughes and English observer Hugh Claye are credited with shooting down two Albatros D.Vs. Victories 2 and 3 for both.

German pilot Gefr Zell (no first name given, with Jasta 42, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 1.