[Sailor Steve]

September 22, 1918


Air War:

0750 German ace Karl Bohnenkamp, flying with Jasta 30, claims two Sopwith Camels for victories 9 and 10.

0815 German ace Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, with Jasta 30, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 12.

0845 American ace George Vaughn, in Sopwith Camel F6034, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 8.

0850 German ace Wilhelm Neuenhofen, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Sopwith Camel F6034 for victory number 9. American 8-victory ace George Augustus Vaughn, 17th Aero Sqdn USAS, is forced to land, unharmed. Within a couple of hours he will be airborne again.

0850 German ace Fritz Reimer, with Jasta 26, shoots down Sopwith Camel F5969 for victory number 8. 2nd Lt G.P. Thomas, 17th Aero Sqdn USAS, is killed.

0956 German ace Karl Odebrett, flying with Jasta 42, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 15. The plane is from Esc Br 123. The observer, 1st Lt E.M. Powell, USAS, is wounded.

1205 George Vaughn scores his second kill of the day, another Fokker D.VII, for number 9.

1700 Australian AFC ace pilot George Peters and ace observer James Traill, in Bristol F.2b B1278, shoot down a DFW C.V. Victory number 7 for Peters; number 6 for Traill.

German ace Oskar von Boegnik, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 26. This is his last aerial victory. He will survive the war, retiring from military life in 1920. From 1924 until 1933 he will serve as an executive in the German Front-Line Soldiers Union, and then in 1934 return to the military as a Major in the Luftwaffe, holding several positions in that capacity, be promoted to Generalmajor in 1941 and retiring in 1943. Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk will be captured by the Russians in May 1945 and die in captivity at age 52 on January 30, 1946.

German ace Hermann Frommherz, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Sopwith Camel F2157 for victory number 24. 1st Lt T.E. Tillingast, 17th Aero Sqdn USAS, is taken prisoner.

Australian RAF ace pilot Edgar Johnston, flying a Bristol F.2b, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 15. Johnston's official listing has Walter Grant as his observer on this mission, but Grant's listing shows nothing for this day. Who Johnston's observer was is uncertain.

German ace Bruno Loerzer, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Camel from the 17th Aero Sqdn for victory number 42. Details other than the unit are unknown.

German ace Emil Thuy, with Jasta 28, shoots down SE.5a C8864 for victory number 31. 2nd Lt J.C. Gunn, 56 Sqdn RAF, is taken prisoner.