[Sailor Steve]

September 25, 1917

Air War:
0950 German ace Friedrich Altemeier, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 8.

1130 English RFC pilot Michael Edward Gonne, in Sopwith Pup A6215, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1150 Scottish RFC pilot George Edwin Thomson, in Sopwith Pup B2196, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

1200 Canadian RFC pilot John Crompton, in SE.5a B512, and Scottish pilot Graham Young, in B533, share a victory over an Albatros D.V. Number 3 for both.

1230 French pilot Henri de Slade, in a Nieuport, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 4.

1525 German ace Carl Menckhoff, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 12.

1630 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in an Albatros D.III 2182/16, shoots down SPAD VII B3520 for victory number 24. Lt B.A. Bowers is killed.

1630 English RFC pilot Edward Clarke, in Sopwith Camel B2327, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 5.

1730 Three French SPAD pilots share a victory over an Albatros two-seater:
William Herisson, number 5.
Rober de Marancour, number 6.
Lt Vernin, unknown.

1810 English RFC pilot Russell Winnicott, in DH.5 A9218, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.

1815 English RFC pilot Oliver Bryson, flying SPAD VII B3646, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 2.

1830 Vfw Bärwald, most likely in an Albatros D.V (Jasta 37's main aircraft at the time), shoots down a DH.5 for victory number 1. No other details available.

1830 English RFC pilot William Rooper, in Nieuport 27 B6767, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 6.

1835 Two RFC teams in Bristol F.2bs share a victory over an Albatros D.V:
A7225, Lt J.P. Dailey, unknown; William Joseph Benger, England, victory number 1.
B1111, Sgt F. Hopper, unknown; Leslie Williams Burbidge, England, number 1.

1835 German pilot Hans Waldhausen, in Albatros D.V 2284/17, shoots down a British observation balloon for victory numbber 3. Observers Lt W.Y. Walls and Sgt Moncrieff are unharmed.

1845 German ace Rudolf Matthaei, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down an SE.5 for victory number 8.

German pilot Uffz Goretski, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for his only aerial victory.

German pilot Lt Breuer, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an "Enemy fighter" for his only victory.

German ace Ludwig Hanstein, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Morane-Saulnier 'P' for victory number 11,

German ace Heinrich Kroll, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Pup for victory number 12,

German pilot Karl Meierdirks, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 1.

German pilot Uffz Tönges, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a DH.4 for his only victory.