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Old 09-25-18, 05:33 PM   #3283
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September 25, 1918


Air War:

1130 Australian AFC ace Adrian Cole, flying SE.5a D6964, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 9.

1810 English RAF ace pilot Chester Thompson, in Bristol F.2b C1035 with Lt L.R. James as observer, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 9.

1815 German ace Robert von Greim, flying with Jasta 34, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 24.

1815 English RAF pilot Geoffrey Hooper and Canadian ace observer Harold Edwards, in Bristol F.2b E2536, claim two Fokker D.VIIs. Victories 5 and 6 for Hooper; 16 and 17 for Edwards.

1820 Geoffrey Hooper and Harold Edwards gain their third victory of the day, bringing down another Fokker D.VII. Number 7 for Hooper; number 18 for Edwards.

1820 English RAF ace pilot Thomas Traill and Canadian observer Richard Gordon-Bennett, in Bristol F.2b E2252, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 6 for Traill; number 5 for Gordon-Bennett.

1830 Scottish RAF pilot Malcolm McCall and English ace observer Clement Boothroyd, in Bristol F.2b E2569, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 4 for McCall; number 6 for Boothroyd.

1850 German ace Franz Piechulek, with Jasta 56, shoots down Sopwith Camel C66 for victory number 11. 2nd Lt T. Warburton, 204 Sqdn RAF, is taken prisoner.

German ace Friedrich Noltenius, with Jasta 27, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 13.
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