September 23, 1917
Air War:
0730 Canadian RNAS pilot Stearne Edwards, flying Sopwith Camel B6217, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 4.
0815 Canadian RNAS pilot John Playford Hales, in Sopwith Camel B3832, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.
German ace Otto Kissenberth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 16.
0820 Stearne Edwards scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another Albatros D.V for victory number 5.
0910 French ace René Fonck, in a SPAD VII, shoots down an Albatros for victory number 14.
0930 Italian pilot Giovanni Sabelli, flying a SPAD VII, shoots down an Austrian Albatros D.III for victory number 4.
0930 German ace Werner Voss, in Fokker F.I 103/17, shoots down DH.4 A7643 for victory number 48. 2nd Lts Samuel Leslie John Bramley and John Matthew DeLacy are both killed.
0950 Otto Kissenberth scores his second victory of the day, shooting down a Sopwith 1½ Strutter for number 17.
1045 German ace Hans von Adam, in an Albatros d.V, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 20.
1055 German pilot Franz Ray, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 5.
1100 New Zealand-born RNAS pilot Harold Beamish, flying Sopwith Camel N6377, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 5.
1125 French ace Maurice Boyau, in a Nieuport scout, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 10.
1130 German ace Kurt-Bertram von Döring, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 8.
1130 Welsh RNAS ace Howard Saint, in Sopwith Camel N6341, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 6
1230 German pilot Konrad Mettlich, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an unidentified Sopwith for victory number 5.
(per Jasta War Chronology. The Aerodrome says Nieuport.)
1230 German pilot Wilhelm Seitz, flying an albatros D.III, shoots down an unidentified Nieuport for victory number 4.
1230 German ace Rudol Wendelmuth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an unidentified Nieuport for victory number 9.
1250 French pilot Jules Covin, with Adj Poreaux and MdL de Freycinet, in a three-seater (probably Caudron R.4), shoot down a German two seater. Victory number 3 for Covin and Poreaux, number 1 for de Freycinet.
(Per the French Pilots webpage
http://www.cieldegloire.com/004_covin_j_c.php. The French Air Service War Chronology and The Aeodrome website listings look like they may have been in individual fighters. The Nieuport Escadrille N31 seems to indicate the latter.)
1600 Scottish RFC pilot Charles Roberd Davidson, in a Vickers FB.19 on the Palestinian Front, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1. Shared with Lt H.E. Sheppard.
1655 German pilot Hermann Becker, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an unidentified Nieupprt for victory number 2.
1740-1835 Canadian RFC ace Reginald Hoidge, flying SE.5a B506, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 23.
1800 English RFC ace Arthur Rhys Davids, in SE.5a B.4863, shoots down Fokker F.I 103/17. German 48-victory ace Werner Voss is killed. What happened is fairly simple, yet there is still much controversy surrounding the fight.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=186
1800-1830 Arthur Rhys Davids scores his second kill of the day, shooting down an Albatros D.V for victory number 20. This may have been 14-victory ace Carl Menckhoff, and may have been the Albatros that tried to help Voss. If it was Menckhoff he landed unharmed.
1800-1830 English RFC ace James McCudden, in SE.5a B4863, ahoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 13.
1830 Rudolf Wendelmuth scores his second kill of the day shooting down DH.5 A9258 for victory number 10.
(Per The Aerodrome. Jasta War Chronology says it was a Sopwith, but gives no details.)
English 6-victory ace John Lancashire Barlow is killed in a flying accident while on patrol.
German pilot Walter Böning shoots down two Nieuports for victories 5 and 6.
German ace Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Nieuport 23 for victory number 20.
Austrian pilot Frank Linke-Crawford, flying Austrian Albatros D.III 153.04, shoots down an Italian seaplane for victory number 5.
Hungarian pilot Ferdinand Udvardy, in a Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, shoots down a SPAD and a Pomilio for victories 3 and 4.