[Sailor Steve]

September 27, 1917

Air War:

1028 German pilot Rudolf Windisch, flying Albatros D.V 1055/17, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 3.

1300 Canadian RFC pilot William Durrand and English observer William Benger, in Bristol F.2b A7245, shoot down an Albatros D.V. Victory number 5 for Durand; number 2 for Benger.

1555-1750 English RFC ace James McCudden, in SE.5a B4863, shoots down an LVG C.V for victory number 14.

1600 German pilot Ludwig Weber, in Albatros D.V 2236/17, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 2. This is his last win. Weber will serve briefly as an instructor, and survive the war. He will work for Junkers starting in 1928, and spend four years in Abyssinia, then three more (1936-1939) in Portugal. He will end his flying career in 1949 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Date of death unknown, but apparently was still alive in Switzerland in 1977. Among Weber's legends are that he taught Hermann Göring to fly and that he built an airplane for King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

1605 Canadian RNAS pilot, in Sopwith Camel B6244, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 2.

1705 German pilot Hans Waldhausen, flying Albatros D.V 2284/17, shoots down a British observation balloon for victory number 4.

1710 Hans Waldhausen scores his second kill of the day, shooting down an RE.8 for victory number 5.

1805 French ace Albert Deullin, in SPAD VII S401, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 18.

1815 Hans Waldhausen gets his third victory of the day, destroying a second British balloon for number 6.

1830 English RFC observer Valentine Collins, in Bristol F.2b A7226 with 2nd Lt W.D. Bostock as pilot, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 2.

1835 Three pilots from two different services share a victory over an Albatros D.V:
Charles Booker, RNAS, England, Sopwith Camel B6227, number 23.
Sub-Lt J.H. Thompson, RNAS, Sopwith Camel, nation and victory number unknown.
John Tudhope, RFC, Canada, Nieuport 24 B3617, number 2.
Their victim is German ace Hans Waldhausen, who scored his sixth win twenty minutes earlier. Waldhausen lands on the British side of the lines and is taken prisoner.

1840 German pilot Xavier Dannhuber, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Bristol F.2b A7150 for victory number 5.

1845 W.D. Bostock and Valentine Collins get their second kill of the day, an Albatros D.V. Number 3 for Collins, unknown for Bostock.