[Sailor Steve]

May 28, 1918


Air War:

0620 German pilot FlgMt Bieber (no first name given), flying with SeeFrontStaffel 2, shoots down DH.9 A8065 for victory number 3.

0635 Ten RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over two DFW C.Vs:
Lt H.B. Bradley, C1102, nationality and victory numbers unknown.
Percy Clayson, England, C1849, victories 13 and 14.
Lt E.M. Forsyth, B773, nationality and victory numbers unknown.
Lt C.B. Henderson, C1112, nationality and victory numbers unknown.
Duerson Knight, United States, C6479, victories 3 and 4.
Harold Kullberg, United States, B8254, victories 3 and 4.
Lt K.J.P. Laing, B8504, nationality and victory numbers unknown.
Basil Moody, South Africa, C1092, victories 3 and 4.
Ernest Owen, England, B8512, victories 2 and 3.
Lt A.F. Scroggs, C6416, nationality and victory numbers unknown.

0730 American RAF pilot Frederic Ives Lord, in Sopwith Dolphin C4182, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 1.

0830 French ace Eugene Camplan, with Spa 65, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 6. This is possibly Flg Ackermann and Flg Jeschke of Schasta 5, both taken prisoner.

0845 German pilot Flg Kuhlmey (no first name given), with Jasta 28, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 1.

0815 American ace Frank Baylies, flying with French Escadrille Spa 3, shoots down a German "Scout" for victory number 10.

0850 German ace Paul Billik, in an Albatros D.Va, shoots down SE.5a C6455 for victory number 18. Lt W.P. Southall is killed.

0900 German pilot Otto sowa, with Jasta 52, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 3.

0931 American pilot Edward Rickenbacker, in a Nieuport 28, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 5.

0945 German ace Kurt Schönfelder, with Jasta 7, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 6.

1110 English RAF pilot Chester William McKinley Thompson and observer Hubert Cecil Hunt, flying Bristol F.2b C4894, shoot down a German two-seater. Victory number 1 for both.

1115 German pilot Oliver Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay, in a Siemens-Schuckert D.III, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 1.

1115 German ace Rudolf Berthhold, with JG 2, shoots down a Nieuport 27 for victory number 29.

1115 South African RAF pilot Arthur Eden Reed, in SE.5a D3563, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 1.

1120 German pilot Kurt Baier, with Jasta 18, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 1.

1120 Canadian RAF pilot Camille Lagesse, flying SE.5a D5969, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 1.

1120 German pilot Ernst Pabst, with Jasta 51, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 4.

1145 Canadian RAF pilot William Claxton, in SE.5a B38, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 3/

1230 German ace Fritz Loerzer, with Jasta 29, shoot sdown a SPAd for victory number 11.

1245 German pilot Emil Koch, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down SE.5a B8394 for victory number 3. Lt R.S. Milani is wounded and taken prisoner.

1245 German pilot Uffz Marchner (no first name given), flying a Fokker Dr.I, shoots ddown an SE.5a for victory number 1.

1330 Three pilots flying SPAD VIIs for the French Air Service, share a victory over an LVG two-seater:
Thomas Gantz Cassady, United States, victory number 1.
Cpl Dequeker, France, Victory number unknown.
William Thomas Ponder, United States, victory number 1.

1355 Four French pilots with Spa 62, share a victory over a German two-seater:
Adj Blanc (first name not given), victory number 3.
André Bosson, victory number 4.
Adj Dupont (first name not given), victory number 1.
Adj Veau (first name not given), victory number 2.

1415 William Claxton, having switched aeroplanes to SE.5a D3927, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 3.

1500 German pilot Gustav Dörr, with Jasta 45, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for 3/

1615 Two American Nieuport 28 pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
John Hambleton, victory number 1. Hambleton is wounded during this fight.
William H. Taylor, victory number 1.

1730 German ace Friedrich Friedrichs, In Fokker D.VII, shoots down an observation balloon for victory number 6.

1830 American RAF pilot Alvin Andrew Callender, in SE.5a C1884, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 1.

2020 German pilot Friedrich Ehmann, with Jasta 47, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 7.

French pilot Jean Hnry Maurice Arpheuil, with Spa 151, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

English 17-victory ace Reginald Makepeace is killed in a flying accident.

French pilot Charles Quette, with Spa 62, shoots down a German two-seatter for victory number 8.

French pilot Jean Charles Romatet, with Spa 76, shoots down an LVG two-seater. for victory number 1.