[Sailor Steve]

August 21, 1917

Air War:

0740 Welsh RNAS pilot Howard Saint, flying Sopwith Triplane N6295, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.

0800 German pilot Julius Fichter, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Nieuport fighter for victory number 2.

0805 German ace Hans Bethge, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Martinsyde G.100 A3992 for victory number 14. 2nd Lt D.P. Cox is killed.

0810 German pilot Karl Bolle, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Martinsyde G.100 A6259 for victory number 2. Cpt G.K. Smith is killed.

0817 German ace Rudolf Berthold is credited with a Martinsyde G.100 for victory number 13. Only three planes were actually lost. With the other three accounted for, Berthold's claim seems to be in error.

0820 German ace Max von Müller, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down Martinsyde G.100 7276 for victory number 25. 2nd Lt Sydney Thompson is take prisoner.

0845 German ace Ernst Udet, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down DH.4 A7577 for victory number 9.

0950 German ace Ernst Hess, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Sopwith 1½ Strutter for victory number 10.

0955 French ace René Fonck, in a SPAD VII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 10.

1000 Canadian RFC pilot, in a Sopwith 1½ Strutter with Gnr H. Grenner as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1025 Ernst Hess scores his second kill of the day, shooting down an RE.8 for victory number 11.

1200 German ace Emil Thuy, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 8.

1605 German ace Otto Könnecke, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down RE.8 A3535 for victory number 7. Cpt F.D. Pemberton is killed. Lt J.A. Manners-Smith is wounded.

1830 Canadian RNAS pilot John Gerald Manuel, in Sopwith Triplane N5380, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1835 John Manuel scores kill number 2, another Albatros D.V.

1835 Canadian RNAS pilot George Trapp, in Sopwith Triplane N5366, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.

1900 English RFC ace Philip Fullard, flying Nieuport 17 B3459, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 26.

1925 Max von Müller scores his second kill of the day, shooting down DH.4 A7555 for number 26. Lt W.B. Hutcheson is taken prisoner and Lt Thomas Ernest Godwin is killed.

1935 German ace Otto Hartmann, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Triplane N6308 for victory number 7.

2015 German pilot Rudolf Wendelmuth, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 4.

French ace Joseph Robert de Bonnefoy, in a Nieuport, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 6. His victim is probably Ltn Hugo Geiger of Jasta 34, killed about 10 km north of Verdun.
This is de Bonnefoy's last victory. He will survive both World Wars and die of hypotghermia in 1946 after swimming in the River Ain.

Austro-Hungarian pilot Frank Linke-Crawford, flying Hansa-Brandenburg D.I 28.40, shoots down an Italian Nieuport for victory number 1.

British aircrew Lt N. Staples and 2nd Lt M.A. O'Cahhaghan, in an RE.8, are attacked by an Albatros D.V. O'Callaghan manages to shoot the attacker down. German 26-victory ace Eduard Dostler is killed.