[Sailor Steve]

September 26, 1917

Air War:

German ace Fritz Kosmahl dies from a stomach wound recieved on the 22nd.

0720 German pilot Karl Stock, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down SPAD VII B3490 for victory number 2.

1040 Ltn Joschkowitz of Jasta 4 scores his only victory, over a SPAD VII. Further details of his life are unknown.

1040 German ace Kurt Wüsthoff, in an OAW-built Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 21.

1100 English RNAS pilot Rowan Daly, in Sopwith Camel N6359, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 3. This is Daly's last victory for the RNAS. After the war he will serve in the 1919 Russian Civil war, fighting for the White Russians against the Bolsheviks alongside Raymond Collishaw and other former British pilots, shooting down four Russian aircraft. Daly will die in an aerial collision in 1923.

1100 German ace Bruno Loerzer, in Albatros D.V 2299/17, shoots down RE.8 A4216 for victory number 11. 2nd Lt J. Worstenholm is killed; Lt F.L. McCreary is wounded but manages to crash the plane on his own side of the lines.

1115 German ace Richard Runge, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 6.

1145 German pilot Willy Rosenstein, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Camel B6275 for victory number 2.

1200 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in Albatros D.III 2182/16, shoots down Sopwith Camel B2358 for victory 25. Lt W.H.R. Gould is killed.

1210 German pilot Theodor Quandt, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Triplane N5440 for victory number 5.

1700 German pilot Otto Stadter, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD VII 10 for victory number 2. AdJ Etienne Ronserail is taken prisoner.

German ace Friedrich Altemeier, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Triplane N5388 for victory number 9.

German pilot Hans Böhning, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Nieuport 27 B3640 for victory number 3.

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

German ace Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp, in an Albatros D.V, shoots own RE.8 A4615 for victory number 21.

German pilot Albert Hurrle, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 2.

Italian pilot Attilio Imolesi, flying a Nieuport, shoots down a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I and then an "Enemy Aircraft" for victories number 3 and 4.

German pilot Rudolf Klimke, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down two Sopwith Camels for victories 3 and 4.

German pilot August Raben, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down two Caproni bombers for victories 1 and 2.

German ace Karl Thom, in Albatros D.V 2164/17, shoots down a Caudron G.4 for victory number 12

Hungarian pilot Ferdinand Udvardy, in a Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, shoots down an Italian SPAD for victory number 5.

German pilot Max Wackwitz, flying Albatros D.V 4545/17, shoots down a Sopwith Triplane for victory number 3.