[Sailor Steve]

August 19, 1918


Air War:

0805 German ace Josef Mai, flying an Albatros D.V, scores a double victory, numbers 21 and 22, when he attacks two Bristol F.2bs and they turn into each other and collide, killing all four occupants:
C296, 2nd Lts E.S. Glasse and C.W. Woodend.
D8027, Lt R.H. Davis and 2nd Lt E.G. Locke.

0835 Josef Mai claims his third victory of the day, shooting down SE.5a E1348 for victory number 23. Lt T.D. Hazen, 56 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

0842 German ace Arthur Laumann, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 25.

0900 German ace Alois Heldmann, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 11.

0900 German ace Paul Aue, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 8.

0950 Australian AFC ace Adrian Cole, flying SE.5a D6948, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 6.

0950 German pilot Ltn Matzdorf (no first name given), with Jasta 6, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 2.

1000 American RAF pilot Louis Bennett Jr, in SE.5a E3947, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 4.

1000 Adrian Cole scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a Fokker D.VII for number 7.

1006 German ace Franz Büchner, with Jasta 13, shoots down either a Bréguet 14 or a DH.9 (records are unclear) for victory number 18.

1010 Louis Bennett Jr scores his second kill of the day, flaming a German observation balloon for victory number 5.

1050 German ace Reinhold Jörke, with Jasta 39, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 11.

1115 English RAF pilot Guy Wareing, in SE.5a C1133, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 2.

1130 American RAF pilot Hilbert Blair, in SE.5a B8505, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 2.

1130 Hilbert Blair shares his second kill of the day, another Fokker D.VII, with English ace Thomas Selwyn. Number 3 for Blair; number 7 for Selwyn.

1130 Scottish RAF ace Thomas Harries, flying SE.5a E6006, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 9.

1159 American RAF ace William Lambert, in SE.5a B8395, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 18.

1340 Louis Bennett Jr gains his third victory of the day, another balloon, for number 6.

1341 Louis Bennett Jr scores his fourth of the day, yet another balloon, for number 7.

1750 German pilot Alfred Fleischer, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 3. MdL Maurice Gauier of Spa 94 is listed as Missing.

1950 Scottish RAF ace Walter Carlaw, flying Sopwith Camel D9442, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 6.

German pilot Thilo Boelcke, with Jasta 67, destroys an Allied observation balloon for victory number 3.