July 8:
Air War: French pilot Jean Pie Hyacinthe Paul Jerome Casale, Marquis de Montferato, flying a Morane 'L' parasol, shoots down an Enemy Aircraft for his first kill.
Celtic Sea: Walther Schwieger and U-20 begin their fourth war patrol with the sinking of Russian sailing ship SV Marion Lightbody, 2,176 tons, bound from Valparaiso to Queenstown with a load of barley. His score is now 11 ships and 64,571 tons.
North Sea: Otto Wünsche, in U-25, sinks Russian cargo ship SS Anna, 2,000 tons, heading from Arkhangelsk to Hull with a cargo of deals and battens. He then sinks British freighter SS Guido, 2,093 tons, carrying a general cargo from London and Hull to Achangelsk. This brings his score to 12 ships and 6,433 tons.
German East Africa: At 0545 the tug Blackcock pulls alongside HMS Mersey to take off the officers and a burial party for a fifth crewman who died from his wounds while undergoing treatment aboard HMFM Trent. Meanwhile parties of carpenters and shipwrights come aboard to repair the damage.
Aboard HMS Severn the day is spent removing empty cartridges and bringing aboard fresh ammunition, while a diver is busy clearing the fouled starboard propeller.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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