December 16, 1917
Air War:
1020 English RFC pilot James Coombe, flying Nieuport 27 B6821, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.
1025 English RFC pilot Reginald Howard Rusby, in a Nieuport, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.
1400 Canadian RFC pilot Hilliard Brooke Bell, in Sopwith Camel B5223. shoots down an Albatros D.V fpr victory number 1. It should be noted that German records show no fighter aircraft lost this day.
1410 German ace Paul Bäumer, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 17.
1410 German ace Max von Müller, in Albatros D.V 1154/17, shoots down Sopwith Camel B2450 for victory number 36. Lt Kenneth Gordon Seth-Smith manages to crash unharmed on his own side of the lines.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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