[Sailor Steve]

May 13, 1917

Air War:
0735 English RFC pilot Thomas Doran, flying SPAD VII A262, is credited with two Albatros D.IIIs for victories 2 and 3.

1015 Italian ace Francesco Baracca, in a SPAD VII, shoots down Hansa-Brandenburg C.I 129.20 for victory number 11. Hungarian 5-victory ace Julius Busa is killed. There seems to be no information on Busa's observer at this time.

1040 Irish RFC observer John Cowell, riding in FE.2d A6412 with pilot 2nd Lt M.P. Scott, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 2.

1045 Ace English RFC team Frederich Thayre and Francis Cubbon, in FE.2d A6430, shoot down two Albatros D.IIIs. Victories 11 and 12 for Thayre, 12 and 13 for Cubbon.

1135 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down BE.2e 7130 for victory number 24. 2nd Lt Frank Thompson and Lt Arthur Charles Champion Rawlins crash unharmed on their own side of the lines. Von Richthofen becomes disoriented in low clouds. He finds himself over enemy gun batteries and is hit in the leg before he can get away. He manages to land on his own side before passing out and waking up in a hospital. Lothar von Richthofen will spend five months recovering, his sole consolation being awarded the Pour le Merite - The Blue Max. With his brother Manfred still on leave command of Jasta 11 will be assumed by Karl Allmenröder.

1145 German ace Karl Allmenröder, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down RE.8 4245 for victory number 12. 2nd Lts V.F. Stewart and J.G. Troup are both killed.

1155 German ace Kurt Wolff, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down SPAD VII 1377 for victory number 30. Sgt Fernamd Albert Garrigou is listed as Missing.

1440 Polish-born German pilot Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, in a Halberstadt D.III, destroys a Belgian observation balloon for victory number 2.

1745 Irish RFC pilot Victorh Huston, in Bristol F.2b 4998 with Lt E.A. Ford as observer, shoots down a Halberstadt D.II for victory number 5.

1830 French pilot René Fonck, in a SPAD VII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 5.

1900 Two RFC SPAD VII pilots share a victory over an Albatros D.III:
Douglas Urquhart McGregor, Canada, B1524, number 1.
Conn O'Grady, Ireland, ??, number 2.

2115 Karl Allmenröder scores his second kill of the day, shooting down Nieuport 23 B1567 for number 13. 2nd Lt A.M. Sutherland is taken prisoner.

2120 German pilot Hans Hintsch, in Albatros D.III 2016/16, shoots down Nieuport 17 A6665 for victory number 2. Sgt W.H. Dunn is taken prisoner.

English RFC ace John Andrews, in Sopwith Pup B1703, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 10.

Italian ace Fulco di Calabria, in a Nieuport, shoots down an Albatros for victory number 8.

German pilot Paul Strähle, flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down FE.2d A6445 for victory number 5. 2nd Lt G.C. Heseltine is wounded; observer unknown.



North Atlantic Ocean, far west of Ireland:
Karl Edeling, in U-48, sinks British freighter SS Jessmore, 3,911 tons, bound from Baltimore for Manchester with a general cargo. His score is now 2 ships and 13,628 tons.



English Channel:
Ralph Wenninger, in UC-17, sinks two ships off Ile de Batz:
Danish sailing vessel Anna, 610 tons, en route from Montego Bay to Le Havre with a load of logwood.
Norwegian barque Hudson, 817 tons, sailing from Gonalves, Haiti to Le Havre with a load of wood.
Wenninger's score is now 74 vessels and 94,176 tons.



Alboran Sea:
Heinrich Metzger, in U-47, scuttles Italian sailing vessel L'Idipendente F, 181 tons, raising his score to 8 vessels and 14,616 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Max Valentiner, in U-38, sinks Italian freighter SS Rio Amazonas, 2,970 tons, carrying a load of rice from Port Said to Italy. His score is now 128 ships and 184,187 tons.