February 23, 1918
SMS Wolf enters Kiel amidst great celebrations. Wolf has been at sea for fifteen months without ever entering a port, refueling and replenishing from supply ships the whole time. She has on board 467 prisoners and large quantities of rubber, copper, zinc, brass, silk, copran and cocoa.
Air War:
1530 German pilot Fritz Danker, flying with Jasta 32, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 2.
1535 German pilot Jakob Landin, with Jasta 32, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 3.
1620 German ace Walter Ewers, in an Albatros D.Va, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 7. S/Lt Henri Schneider is wounded, and dies from his wounds the next day.
German ace Hans Weiss, with Jasta 41, shoost down a Salmson 2A2 for victory number 7.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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