March 12, 1916:
Air War:
0900 French pilot Noel Hugues Ann Louis de Rochfort and observer Jean Jacques Perrin, flying Nieuport 10 no. 640, shoot down an LVG two-seater. It is the first victory for both.
1130 German Ace Oswald Boelcke, in a Fokker E.III, brings down a Farman two-seater for kill number 10.
French ace Georges Guynemer, flying a Niuport 10, downs an LVG two-seater for victory number 8.
German pilot Otto Parschau, in a Fokker E.III, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 3.
German pilot Ernst Udet makes his first attack against the enemy. When he fires on a French Caudron two-seater, the observer gets lucky, but so does Udet. A bullet tears his goggles off, but somehow doesn't even graze him, leaving his face gouged by glass splinters but otherwise unharmed.
North Sea:
His Majesty's Yacht Mekong, 899 tons, is wrecked near Scarborough.
Black Sea:
Turkish freighter SS Seyyar, 2,875 tons, is sunk by gunfire off Karasu.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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