[Sailor Steve]

March 11, 1918

Air War:

1000 Canadian RNAS pilot Hazel Wallace, flying Sopwith Camel B6359, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.

1140 English RFC pilot Alan Jerrard, in Sopwith Camel B5648 over the Italian Front, shoots down an Aviatik Berg D.I for victory number 3.

1230 Four RFC Camel Pilots share the destruction of an observation balloon:
Walter McFarlane Carlaw, Scotland, s/n unlisted, victory number 1.
Alfred Koch, Canada, s/n unlisted, victory number 8.
Frank Quigley, Canada, B7475, victory number 24,
Kenneth Seth-Smith, England, s/n unlistted, victory number 6.

1255 Scottish ace RFC pilot Herbert Hartley and Scottish observer John Robertson, in Bristol F.2b A7114, shoot down a Fokker Dr.I. Victory number 7 for Harttley; number 5 for Robertson. Robertson is mortally wounded in this fight, and dies later this day.

1300 Englsh RFC observer Arthur Cooper, in Bristol F.2b B1269 with 2nd Lt R.J. Smethan-Jones as pilot, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 7. This is Arthur Lewis Cooper's last aerial victory. He will survive the war and live until 1985. Further details unknown.

1310 German ace Lothar von Richthofen has been out of action for four recovering from a wound, now flying Fokker Dr.I 454/17, shoots down Bristol F.2b A7227 for victory number 27. 2nd Lt Wynne Llewellyn Thomas and Cpl J.H. Bowler crash on their own side of the lines unharmend.

1310 German pilot Edgar Scholtz, in a Fokker Dr.I (possibly 591/17, with which he is later associated), shoots down SE.5a B54 for victory number 2. 2nd Lt Douglas Woodman is killed.

1315 Five RFC SE.5a pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
Alfred Brown, England, C9494, victory number 4.
Lt E.W. Lindeberg, B125, nationality and victory number unknown.
Ronald Mark, England, C6397, victory number 6.
2nd Lt P.J. Nolan, C5301, nationality and victory number unknown.
Herbert Richardson, England, C1070, victory number 5.

1355 English RFC pilot Thomas Sydney Sharpe, in Sopwith Camel B5627, shoots down a Fokker Dr.I for victory number 1.

1445 South African RNAS ace Leonard Slatter, in Sopwith Camel B6400, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 6.