[Sailor Steve]

September 20, 1918


Air War:

0635 American RAF ace Frederic Lord, flying Sopwith Dolphin C4127, shoots down a Hannover CL two-seat fighter for victory number 11.

0745 German ace Hermann Frommherz, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 23.

0745 German ace Friedrich Noltenius, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a E4072 for victory number 11.

0750 Canadian RAF ace pilot Kennoth Conn and English ace observer Bruce Digby-Worsely, in Bristol F.2b E2216, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 14 for Conn; number 15 for Digby-Worsley.

0750 English RAF pilot George Poole and ace observer Charles Hill, in Bristol F.2b C922, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 4 for Poole; number 6 for Hill.

0755 Three RAF Bristol F.2b teams share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
E2216: Kenneth Conn, Canada, number 15; Bruce Digby-Worsley, England, number 16.
????: Edgar Johnston, Australia, number 15; Walter Grant, Australia, number 4.
C922: George Poole, England, number 5; Charles Hill, England, number 7.

0800 German ace Georg Meyer, with Jasta 37, shoots down SE.5a D0645 for victory number 20. 2nd Lt H.F.V. Battle, 60 Sqdn RAF, is wounded.

1037 German ace Otto Schmidt, with Jasta 5, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 14.

1050 German ace Karl Odebrett, with Jasta 42, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 14.

1055 German ace Carl Degelow, with Jasta 40, shoots down Bristol F.2b E2260 for victory number 15. Lt M.F.J.R. Mahoney and 2nd Lt J.N. Keir, 48 Sqdn RAF, are both taken prisoner.

1445 Friedrich Noltenius scores his second victory of the day, shooting down Sopwith Camel F6192 for victory number 12. 1st Lt H. Jenkinson, 148th Aero Sqdn USAS, is killed.

1530 English RAF ace Leslie Hollinghurst, in Sopwith Dolphin C4136, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 7.

1540 German ace Franz Brandt, with Jasta 26, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 10.

1545 German ace Otto Fruhner, with Jasta 26, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 27.

1550 German ace Paul Bäumer, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 27.

German ace Gerhard Fieseleer, flying an Albatros D.III over the Macedonian Front, shoots down a Nieuport 12 for victory number 19. This is Fieseler's last aerial victory. He will survive the war, first running a printing shop and then becoming a flight instructor and then an acrobatic stunt pilot. He will become quite popular and start commanding large fees for his flying skills. Next he will design his own stunt plane, the F.I. Following this he will puchase a sailplane company and convert it to build sport planes of his own design. In 1935 Fieseler will start building aircraft for the German military, ultimately resulting in the legendar STOL liason plane, the Fieseler Storch. Following the Second World War Gerhard Fieseler will spend some time held by the Americans with no charges ever being filed. Finally released from prison he will go on to open an auto parts busines. Gerhard fieseler will die in 1987, aged 91.

German naval ace Theo Osterkamp, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 27.