[Sailor Steve]

October 18, 1918


Admiral Reinhard Scheer orders all German U-boats to return to their bases.


Air War:

1230 Australian AFC pilot Frank Alberry, flying SE.5a D6995, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 4.

1415 Two French aces from Spa 90 share the destruction of a German observation balloon:
Marius Ambrogi, victory number 14.
Charles Mace, victory number 8.

1425 German ace Max Näther, with Jasta 62, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 22.

1430 Two French pilots from Spa 167 share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
Claude Barny de Romanet, victory number 14.
S/Lt F. Dumas, victory number 3.

1530 German ace Hans Donhauser, with Jasta 17, shoots down a SPAD 2-seater for victory number 17.

1540 Hans Donhauser scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another SPAD for victory number 18.

1550 Two French pilots from Spa 94 share a victory over a German two-seater:
Pierre Marinovitch, victory number 18.
Adj Ondet (no first name given), victory number 3.

1625 German ace Georg von Hantelmann, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 22.

1630 German ace Josef Veltjens, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down DH.4 for victory number 35.

1745 German ace Otto Könnecke, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 32.

French ace Fernad Guyou, flying with Spa 37, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 11.

French ace Claud Haegelen, with Spa 100, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 21.

German ace Wilhelm Seitz, with Jasta 68, shoots down a "Scout" for victory number 14.

German 25-victory ace Ltn Oliver Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay is awarded the Pour le Merite (Blue Max), the youngest German pilot to recieve it at age 20. On this day he is severely wounded in combat, possibly by fire from another German fighter. He will be told of the award shortly before dying of his wounds on the 26th.

German 27-victory ace Fritz Otto Bernert, who went by his middle name Otto, dies of the Spanish Flu.