[Sailor Steve]

August 10, 1914


Air War:

0649 Scottish RAF ace Arthur Randall, flying SE.5a C6454, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 8.

0750 Four RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
Hilbert Leigh Blair, United States, C1945, victory number 1.
Thomas Harries, Scotland, C8844, victory number 8.
Wilfred Selwyn, England, C8840, victory number 6.
William Lambert, United States, B8395, victory number 15.

0915 English RAF pilot Leslie Hollinghurst, in Sopwith Dolphin C4136, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 5.

1000 German ace Robert von Greim, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 19.

1010 German pilot Paul Groll, with Jasta 40, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 2.

1040 German pilot Albert Lux, flying with Jasta 27, shoots down a Sopwith Dolphin for victory number 3.

1040 German ace Wilhelm Neuenhofen, with Jasta 27, shoots down a Sopwith Dolphin for victory number 6.

1040 German pilot Friedirch Theodor Noltenius, with Jasta 27, shoots down a Sopwith Dolphin for victory number 1.
(Only two Dolphins were lost this day:
C4176, Lt T.T. Shipman taken prisoner.
D3774, 1st Lt G.S. Harvey UASA taken prisoner.)

1125 German ace Franz Büchner, with Jasta 13, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 14.

1125 German pilot Uffz Lohrmann (no first name given), with Jasta 42, shoots down SE.5a E1286 for victory number 1. Lt H. Allen, 56 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1130 German ace Ernst Udet, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Sopwith Camel B7399 for victory number 50. Lt V.B. McIntosh, 3 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1140 American RAF pilot Alvin Callendar, in SE.5a C9565, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 5.

1200 German pilot Hans Borck, with Jasta 15, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 2.

1215 German pilot Griedrich August Freiherr von Köckeritz, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 1.

1215 German ace Erich Löwenhardt, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a B8429 for victory number 54. Capt W.O. Bolger, 56 Sqdn RAF, is killed. Shortly after this Löwenhardt and German pilot Alfred Wenz collide. Wenz bails out safely, but Löwenhardt's parachute fails to open and he falls 12,000 feet to his death. Wenz will survive the war without ever scoring an aerial victory and live until 1969.

1220 German ace Rudolf Berthold, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 43.

1230 Rudolf Berthold scores his second kill of the day, shooting down DH.9 B9344 for victory number 44. 2nd Lt H. Hartley and Sgt O.D. Beetham, 49 Sqdn RAF, are both taken prisoner. Berthold's plane is severely damaged and crashes into a house. He survives but will never fly in combat again. After the war Berthold puts together a Freikorps of 1,200 men to fight the Communists in Lithuania. They failed, and on March 15,1920 a mob attacked Berthold. Legend has it that he was strangled with his own Pour le Merite, but it seems more likely that Rudolf Berthold was shot to death with his personal sidearm.

1245 German ace Josef Veltjens, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a D6094 for victory number 24. Lt H.T. Flintoft, 56 Sqdn RAF, is taken prisoner.

1310 German ace Harald Auffarth, with Jasta 29, shoots down Sopwith Camel D1783 for victory number 20. Lt S.A. Dawson, 73 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1425 English RAF pilot Noel Keeble and Irish observer Eric Betts, in DH.4 A7446, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 4 for Keeble; number 3 for Betts.

1540 Englsih pilot William Henry Clarke and observer Charles Myers Whitham, flying DH.4 A7573, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 1 for both.

1600 German pilot Heinrich Maushake, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down RE.8 C5069 for victory number 5. 2nd Lts C.F. Grant and W.H. Weber, 5 Sqdn RAF, are both killed.

1630 French ace Jacques Erlich, with Spa 154, destroys a German observation ballooon for victory number 14.

1715 Germa ace Otto Creutzmann, with Jasta 46, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 7.

1805 German pilot Siegfried Büttner, with Jasta 61, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 5.

1810 English RAF ace pilot John Gurdon and ace observer Charles Gass, flying Bristol F.2b E2454, are credited with two Fokker D.VIIs Victories 26 and 27 for Gurdon; 37 and 38 for Gass.

1810 English RAF ace pilot Leslie King and ace observer Valentine Collins, in Bristol F.2b D7894, are credited with two Fokker D.VIIs. Victories 6 and 7 for King; 7 and 8 for Collins.

1815 American RAF pilot Roy Dodds and Canadian Observer Irving Banfield Corey, in DH.9 C2877, are credited with two Fokker D.VIIs. Victories 2 and 3 for Dodds; 1 and 2 for Corey.

1825 German pilot Kurt Pietzsch, with Jasta 58, destroys a French observation balloon for victory number 1. S/Lt Gustave Fournier, 47° Cie d’Aérostieres, parachutes safely.

1830 Josef Veltjens scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a SPAD two-seater for number 25.

1845 Ernst Udet scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 51.

2020 American pilot Edgar Tobin, in a SPAD XIII, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 4.

German pilot Dietrich Averes, with Jasta 81, shoots dwon a SPAD for victory number 4.

German ace Albert Hets, with Jasta 37, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 6.

German ace Herbert Knappe, with Jasta 81, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 8.

German ace Arthur Laumann, flying with Jasta 66, is credited with two SPADs for victories 21 and 22.

German pilot Reinhold Lüdecke, with Jasta 81, is credited with two SPADs for victories 3 and 4.