[Sailor Steve]

August 12, 1918


Air War:

0840 German ace Friedrich von Röth, flying with Jasta 16, shoots down SE.5a D6875 for victory number 19. Lt T.C. Martin, 85 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

0930 German pilot Wolfram von Richthofen, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwih Camel for victory number 4.

0935 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 39.

0950 Lothar von Richthofen scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another Sopwith Camel for number 40.

1055 German ace Rudolf Francke, with Jasta 8, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 13. MdL Geores Roque, Spa 156, is killed.

1110 Australian AFC ace Roy Phillipps, flying SE.5a D6860, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 15.

1130 German ace Ernst Udet, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a E3984 for victory number 53. Capt I.F. Hind, 40 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1215 German ace Josef Mai, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 20.

1220 South African RAF ace William Jordan, in Sopwith Camel D8162, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 39.

1253 German naval ace Gotthard Sachsenberg, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel D9507 for victory number 20. 1st Lt Ralph D. Gracie, 17th Aero Sqdn (attached to the RAF), is killed.

1255 Gotthard Sachsenberg scores his second kill of the day, shooting down DH.4 D1691 for victory number 21. Ens Mosely and Lt M.M. Lowry, 218 Sqdn RAF, land safely on their own side.

1810 German ace Friedrich Altemeier, with Jasta 24, shoots down SE.5a E3949 for victory number 16. Lt J.A. Gorden, 41 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1830 German ace Karl Schlegel, with Jasta 45, destroys an Allied observation balloon for victory number 14.

1840 Karl Schlegel scores his second kill of the day, another observation balloon, for number 15.

1945 French ace Hector Garaud, with Spa 38, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 13.

2050 German naval ace Theo Osterkamp, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 21. 1st Lt Harriss B. Aldermann, 17th Aero Sqdn (attached to the RAF) is wounded but lands safely on his own side of the lines.

German ace Otto Könnecke, with Jasta 5, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 29.

French ace Jean Sardier, with Spa 48, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 13.

English RAF ace pilot William Stanton and observer Leslie Edwin Mitchell, in a Bristol F.2b, are credited with two "Enemy Aircraft". Victories 19 and 20 for Stanton; 1 and 2 for Mitchell.