November 24, 1917
Air War:
0845 Canadian RFC pilot Lumsden Cummings, flying Nieuport 27 B5816, shoots down an Albatros D.V fro victory number 5. This is Cummings' last aerial victory. He will survive the war, become a civil engineer and live until 1955.
0920 German pilot Walter Horn, probably in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 1.
1200 Italian pilot Marziale Cerutti, in a Nieuport 27, shoots down an enemy scout and a two-seater for victories number 1 and 2.
1630 German ace Otto Splitgerber, in an Albatros D.III on the Macedonian Front, destroys an observation ballon for victory number 6.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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