[Sailor Steve]

April 28, 1916

Air War:
German ace Oswald Boelcke, just returned from visiting the Oberusel engine factory at Frankfurt, takes of in his Fokker E.IV. He comes across another Fokker tangling with three French Caudrons. The other Fokker dives away and Boelcke attacks, shooting down one of them for victory number 14. French reports have a Sous-Lieutenant Paul Fabre being wounded in the action, but it is unknown whether it was from Boelcke or the other Fokker.

French pilot Marcel Pierre Viallet, in a Caudron G.4 with observer Paul Dumas, is credited with downing a Fokker Eindecker for victory number 1. This may have been the same one Boelcke reported, and it may have been shot down or it may have escaped.

French Brigadier Marie Gaston Fulerand Leon Vitalis, riding as observer in a Nieuport 12 with a "Sgt de Marolles" as pilot, shoots down an Eindecker for victory number 1, the Fokker crashing within 200 meters of the French lines. No name is mentioned in the report or whether he survived or died, but the German pilot had just shot down and killed French Nieuport pilot Jean Peretti.



North Sea:
Victor Dieckmann starts his career in UB-27, sinking British fishing boat Blessing, 19 tons, and damaging Danish schooner Christian, 227 tons.



Black Sea:
Konrad Gansser, commanding U-33, stops and sinks three small vessels near Pitsunda - Lyusya, 50 tons; Anzhekika, 170 tons; and an unidentified sailing vessel estimated at 300 tons, but probably smaller. His score is now 47 ships and 122,260 tons.




Mediterranean Sea:
His Majesty's Yacht Aegusa, 1,242 tons, hits a mine laid by Gustav Seiß in U-73 off Malta. Seiß's score is now 5 ships and 21,898 tons.



German East Africa:
Squadron flagship HMS Vengeance fires on a suspected German camp near Ssasani and a gun position at Ras Upanga, with whaler HMS Pickle and two seaplanes spotting the fall of shot.