[Sailor Steve]

July 28, 1918


Air War:

0540 English RAF pilot Sydney Carlin, flying SE.5a D6922, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 5.

0720 Canadian RAF pilot John Gordon Gillanders and English observer Eric Walker, in DH.4 A7909, shoot down a German two-seater. Victory number 1 for Gillanders; number 3 for Walker.

0730 John gillanders and Eric Walker score their second kill of the day, a Fokker D.VII. Number 2 for Gillanders; number 4 for Walker.

0815 Canadian RAF pilot Henry Coyle Rath, in SE.5a E5964, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

0848 German ace Emil Koch, with Jasta 32, shoots down DH.4 B2065 for victory number 6. Lt R.V. Irwin is taken prisoner; Sgt G.H. Tench is wounded and captured, later dies from his wounds.

0845 German pilot Hugo Krauss, flying with Jasta 32, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 1.

0915 English RAF ace Edward Johnstone, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 14.

0940 Two RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over a Rumpler two-seater:
Roy Manzer, Canada, C8732, victory number 8.
George Vaughn, United States, C6457, victory number 2.

0950 American RAF pilot Malcolm Clifford Howel, in Sopwith Camel D6534, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 1.

1130 German pilot Heinrich Seywald, with Jasta 23, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 2.

1200 Two AFC Bristol F.2b crews share a victory over a Rumpler two-seater:
B1284: Allan brown, Australia, victory number 4' Garfield Finlay, Australia, victory number 7.
C4627: Carrick Paul, New Zealand, victory number 4; William Weir, Australia, victory number 6.

1400 Canadian RAF ace William Stephenson, in Sopwith Camel C9296, shoots down a Fokker D.VII vor victory number 12.

1510 German ace Erich Löwenhardt, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 45. This is probably 5-victory French ace Antoine Pierre Jean Cordonnier, SPAD VII, reported Missing at around this time.

1850 German pilot Ltn Grimm (no first name given), with Jasta 13, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 1.

1900 American pilot John C. Miller and observer Stephen W. Thompson, in a Salmson 2.A2, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 2 for Miller; number 2 for Thompson.

1905 John Miller and Stephen Thompson score their second victory of the day, another Fokker D.VII. Number 2 for Miller; number 3 for Thompson.

1950 German pilot Justus Grassman, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Sopwith Camel C8296 for victory number 3. Canadian 12-victory ace William Samuel Stephenson is wounded and taken prisoner. After the war Stephenson will return to canada and start a hardware business that will make him rich. His fortune will be enhanced further with his patent for transmitting photographs via wireless. He will use his contacts to spy on Germany, reporting directly to Winston Churchill. During World War 2 he will found a businiss in the United States that will actually be a covert operation for Churchill, by then Prime Minister. Ian Fleming once cited Stephenson as one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. William Stephenson will die in 1989 at age 92.

German ace Karl Bolle, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a Salmson 2.A2 for victory number 27.

German ace Hermann Frommherz, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a Salmzon 2.A2 for victory number 10.
(The two Salmsons are from the American 12th Aero Sqdn:
1st Lt Alfred B. Baker is wounded and taken prisoner; 2nd Lt John C. Lumsden is killed.
1st Lt John C. Miller is wounded, later dying from his wounds; 1st Lt Stephen W. Thompson is wounded.)

German pilot Gerhard Fieseler, with Jasta 25 over the Macendoian Front, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 8.

French 5-victoory ace André Marie Paul Petit-Delchet, with Spa 57, is killed in an accident while taking off for a routine patrol.