[Sailor Steve]

August 14, 1918


Air War:

0600 Two English RAF Camel pilots share a victory over a DFW C.V:
Rupert Gifford, victory number 3.
Edwaard Johnstone, victory number 17.

1010 Two RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over a Halberstadt two-seater:
Ernest Hoy, Canada, D6947, victory number 2.
Christoffel Venter, South Africa, D6965, victory number 16.

1015 French ace Henri Hay de Slade, with Spa 159, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 12.

1110 French ace René Fonck, in a SPAD XIII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 58.

1120 René Fonck scores his second and third kills of the day, shooting down two more two-seaters for nictories number 59 and 60. The legend of "Three in ten seconds" is probably just that, but whatever the case he did bring down three enemy planes in very short order.

1200 German ace Hermann Becker, flying with Jasta 12, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 13.

1205 German ace Ulrich Neckel, with Jasta 19, shoots down SE.5a C1888 for victory number 23. Lt H.A. O'Shea, 92 Sqdn RAF, is taken prisoner.

1215 German ace Johannes Klein, with Jasta 15, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 14.

1840 German ace Franz Büchner, with Jasta 13, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 17.

1900 German ace Ernst Udet, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Bristol F.2b C852 for victory number 54. Lt A.R. Stedman and 2nd Lt G.R. Howard, 88 Sqdn RAF, are both taken prisoner.

German ace Otto Könnecke, flying with Jasta 5, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 30.

German ace Bruno Loerzer, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 31.

French ace Charles Nungesser, with Spa 65, destroys four German observation balloons, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, for victories 39, 40, 41 and 42.

French ace Armand Pinsard, with Spa 23, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 25. He is accompanied by a Lt Simeoni, victory number 1.