April 20, 1916
Air War:
Escadrille Américaine (N.124) is deployed to Luxeuil-les-Bains, France. The unit had been officially authorized on March 21.
Australian RNAS pilot Roderic Stanley Dallas, Flying Nieuport 11 3987, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.
Celtic Sea:
Hans Nieland, commanding U-67, sinks British freighter SS Whitgift, 4,397 tons, bound from Almeria for Tyne with a load of ore. His score is now 11 ships and 7,003 tons.
Ernst Wilhelms, in U-69, sinks British freighter SS Cairngowan, 4,017 tons, travelling from Liverpool to Newport News. His score is now 8 ships and 21,051.
North Sea:
British freighter SS Sabbia, 2,802 tons, headed from Burntisland to London with a load of coal, hits a mine laid by Erwin Weisbach in U-74. Weisbach's total is now 6 ships and 6,972 tons.
Dutch freighter SS Lodewijk Van Nassau, 3,350 tons, carrying a load of nitrate from Valparaiso to Rotterdam, hits a mine laid by Kurt Ramien, new commander of UC-1.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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