[Sailor Steve]

November 6, 1917

Air War:

0820 German ace Paul Bäumer, flying Albatros D.V 4409/17, shoots down an unidentified Sopwith for victory number 8. This may have been 2nd Lt Francis Gartside-Tippinge, who was killed this morning.

0840 Canadian RFC pilot William James Arthur Duncan, in SE.5a B512, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 1.

0845 German pilot Richard Plange, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 1.

0846 German pilot Gottfried Strumpf, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Nieuport 27 B6779 for victory number 1. 2nd Lt H.G. Downing is killed. This is Strump's only aerial victory. He survives the war but nothing seems to be known of his later life.

0850 German ace Hans von Adam, in Albatros D.V 5222/17, shoots down an unidentified Sopwith for victory number 21.

0930 German ace Max von Müller, flying an Albatros D.V, claims a victory over a SPAD. Various times are given for the even, and the location given by von Müller is nowhere near any confirmed Allied losses this day. The Allies only lost one SPAD, and it was likely Bäumer's. Despite the lack of any corroboration at all, von Müller is awarded victory number 30.

1045 English RFC pilot Arthur Peck and observer John Williams, in Bristol F.2b A7194, shoot down a Rumpler two-seater. Victory number 2 for Peck, number 4 for Williams.

1150 German pilot Gerhard Bassenge, in Albatros D.III 2219/16, shoots down Sopwith Camel B2441 for victory number 2.Lt E.G.S. Gordon is taken prisoner. Bassenge is wounded during this fight.

1150 Paul Bäumer scores his second victory of the day, shooting down Sopwith Camel B2414 for number 9. 2nd Lt E.H. Cutbill is taken prisoner.

1150 German ace Erwin Böhme, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Camel B2408 for victory number 22. Lt William L. Harrison is taken prisoner.

Vfw Weimar (first name not listed), flying an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Salmson two-seater for victory number 1.