[Sailor Steve]

February 21, 1918

Air War:

0710 Englsih RFC pilot Harold Ross Eycott-Martin, flying Sopwith Camel B5623 over the Italian Front, shoots down an Aviatik two-seater for victory number 1.

1000 German ace Hermann Göring, in Albatros D.V 2159/17, shoots down SE.5a C5325 for victory number 17. Lt George Barton Craig is wounded and taken prisoner, later dying from his wounds.

1000 German ace Rudolf Klimke, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down SE.5a B4860 for victory number 6. 2nd Lt W.M. Kent is killed.
(There is a chance that the two SE.5as collided.)

1015 Scottish RFC pilot Peter MacDougall, in SE.5a B8257, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 4.

1045 Australian AFC pilot Alexander Goodlet Clark, in SE.5a B4895, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1050 Australian AFC pilot George Jones, flying Sopwith Camel B2551, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1140 German pilot Artur Weber (1 victory) killed in combat with four Sopwith Camels.

1200 German ace Rudolf Matthaei, in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down Sopwith Camel B5552 for victory number 10. 2nd Lt A. Couston, Australian Flying Corps, is taken prisoner.

1210 English RFC pilot Rex Bennett, in Bristol F.2b with Cpl E. Veale as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 5.

1715 Prussia-born German pilot Franz Schleiff, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down RE.8 B535 for victory number 5. Lt W.J. Blitch is wounded.

Italian ace Guglielmo Fornagiari, flying an Hanriot HD.1, shoots down a "Scout" for victory number 6*

Australian RFC pilot Geoffrey Forrest Hughes and Englsih observer Hugh Claye, in Bristol F.2b C4630, shoot down a German two-seater. Victory number 1 for both.

German ace Reinhold Jörke, with Jasta 13, shoots down SE.5a B619 for victory number 10. 2nd Lt G.C. Logan is taken prisoner.