[Sailor Steve]

September 28, 1917

Air War:

Italy and the United States have made a bargain. The Italian Air Service will train American airmen and the U.S. will supply Italy with raw war materials. On September 28 the first forty-six cadets arrive at Foggia in advance of the main party, led by congressman and army Captain Fiorello LaGuardia.

0800 English RFC ace James McCudden, flying SE.5a B4863, shoots down Albatros D.III 1979/16 for victory number 15. Ltn Herbert Pastor (1 victory) is killed.

0845 German ace Otto Schmidt, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Pup for victory number 10.

1045 Canadian RNAS pilot George Trapp, in Sopwith Camel B3822, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 5.

1230 German pilot Harald Auffarth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 4.

1230 German ace Josef Veltjens, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 7. The two F.2bs were A7241, 2nd Lts H.F. Tomlin and H.T. Noble both killed, and A7210, Cpt J.S. Campbell and Dvr G. Tester both killed.

1230 German ace Rudolf Berthold, flying Albatros D.III 2182/16, shoots down DH.5 A9211 for victory number 26. Jasta War Chronology says this was a Martinside G.100, but the serial number given in The Aerodrom3 is a DH.5.

1610 Five RNAS Camel pilots share a victory over an Albatros D.III:
Fred Banbury, Canada, B6230, victory number 6.
Stearne Edwards, Canada, B6217, number 6.
John Hales, Canada, B3832, number 2.
Oliver Redgate, England, B3818, number 4.
Merril Samuel Taylor, Canada, B5651, number 1.

1715-1725 Canadian RFC ace Reginald Hoidge, in SE.5a B506, shoots dfown an Albatros D.V for victory number 24.

1800 German ace Ernst Udet, in Albatros D.V 4476/17, shoots down a Sopwoth Camel for victory number 12.

1805 Ernst Udet scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another Sopwith Camel for number 13.

1810 English RFC pilot Russell Winnicott, flying DH.5 A9218, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 4.

1815 German pilot Ulrich Neckel, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a DH.5 for victory number 2.

Bohemia-born Austro-Hungarian pilot Eugen Bönsch, in Austrian Albatros D.III 153.35, destroys an Italian observation balloon for victory number 2.

Flgmstr Brenner (first name unknown) flying for Marine Feld Jasta 1, probably in an Albatros, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 1.

German 5-victory ace Kurt Wisseman is shot down and killed by an unknown pilot from RFC No.56 Squadron.