[Sailor Steve]

July 21, 1918


Air War:

1000 German pilot Paul Lotz, flying with Jasta 44, shoots down Bristol F.2b C974 for victory number 5. 2nd Lts B.M. Batty and J. Gondre are taken prisoner.

1425 German ace Gustav Dörr, with Jasta 45, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 13.

1745 French ace Henri Hay de Slade, with Spa 86, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 11.

1805 French ace Michel Coiffard, with Spa 154, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 17.

1905 French ace Maurice Boyau, with Spa 77, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 25. This is possibly 12-victory ace Otto Esswein, who was killed in this region.

1925 German ace Rudolf Franke, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 12.

1925 German pilot Vfw Hoppe (no first name given), in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD for his first and only victory.

1925 German ace Wilhelm Seitz, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 8.

2015 German ace Erich Löwenhardt, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 42.

2015 German pilot Wolfram von Richthofen, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 3.

2015 German ace Erich von Wedel, flying a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 8.
(RAF 54 Sqdn lost 3 Camels this day: B2103, Lt Rl.T. Cuffe killed; F2160, Lt F.W. Dougall killed; B2490, 2nd Lt B. Fisher killed.)

German ace Walter Blume, with Jasta 9, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 15.

German ace Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp, with Jasta 36, shoots down Sopwith Camel D1918 for victory number 6. Maj R.H. Freeman is killed.

German ace Arthur Lauman, with Jasta 66, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 13.

German ace Werner Preuss, with Jasta 66, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 8.
(The date for these last two is from Jasta War Chronology. Above the Lines, by the same authors, gives the date as the 22nd.)