March 17, 1916:
Air War:
French pilot Maxime Lenoir, flying a Nieuport 10, wins a duel with a Fokker Eindecker for victory number 3.
English Channel:
Otto Wünsche, Commanding U-70, stops Norwegian barque SV Lindfield, 2,230 tons, bound from Portland, Oregon for Queenstown, Blackpool, Lancashire with a load of wheat, and sinks her. His score is now 23 ships and 16,560 tons.
North Sea:
Ernst Voigt, in UB-6, torpedoes Swedish freighter SS Ask, 1,041 tons, carrying a load of timber from Westervik to London. The damaged ship manages to put safely into port and is later repaired and returned to service.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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