[Sailor Steve]

August 29, 1918


Air War:

0730 Two French pilots from Spa 100 share the destruction of a German observation balloon:
Big Gérin (no first name given), victory number 1.
Claude Haegelen, victory number 13.

0745 German ace Reinhold Jörke, with Jasta 39, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 12.

0810 German ace Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, with Jasta 30, shoots down SE.5a C9061 for victory number 11. Lt E.A. Parnell, 64 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1010 German ace Hans Hans Böhning, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 15.

1925 Two RAF SE.5a aces share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, South Africa, D6856, victory number 43.
Carl Flakenberg, Canada, D6920, victory number 11.

German ace Bruno Loerzer, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down two Sopwiths (model unknown) for victories 32 and 33.

German ace Wilhelm Preuss, with Jasta 66, shoots down two SPADs for victories 10 and 11.

German ace Hans-Joachim Rolfes, with Jasta 45, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 11.

German ace Karl Schlegel, with Jasta 45, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 19.

German ace Paul Sträle, with Jasta 57, shoots down two SPADs for victories 13 and 14.