[Sailor Steve]

November 9, 1917

Air War:

0845 Australian RFC pilot Andrew Cowper, flying DH.5 A9232, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 2.

1000 Australian RFC pilot Claude Thompson, in a SPAD, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 5. Above The Trenches gives this as A6784, but two different sources say that serial number was a Nieuport 23.

1030 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, in a possibly misidentified Fokker Dr.I, claims a Bristol F.2b. Despite the fact that no Bristols were lost this day von Richthofen is awarded victory number 25 on his own word. Another mystery surrounding this event is the plane von Richthofen was flying. Under the Guns of the German Aces says this was his first victory in a Fokker Dr.I triplane, yet offical records say that all Dr.Is were grounded until the end of the month. No serial number is given for von Richthofen's triplane, and he may well have been flying an Albatros D.V.

1030 Claude Thompson socres his second kill of the day, shooting down another Albatros D.V for victory number 6.

1030 German ace Kurt Wüsthoff, in an OAW-built Albatros D.III, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 26.

1040 German ace Rudolf Francke, flying an Albatros D.V, shoots down Sopwith Pup B1757 for victory number 8. 2nd Lt A. Thompson is taken prisoner.

1040 German ace Fritz Loerzer, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Camel B6290 for victory number 6. Flt Lt W.S. Margrath is taken prisoner.

1100 Canadian RFC pilot Albart Carter, in SPAD XIII B3498, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 4.

1200 German pilot Wilhelm Schwartz, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 1.

1200 German ace Rudolf Wendelmuth, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 13.

1330 Englsish RNAS pilot Adrian Tonks, flying Sopwith Camel B6256, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 3.

1435 English RNAS ace Albert Enstone, in Sopwith Camel B3841, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 10.

1530 German ace Josef Jacobs, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down a French SPAD for victory number 10. This is probably S/Lt Pierre Constantini, who was taken prisoner at about this time.

1610 Two RFC Sopwith Camel pilots share a victory over an Albatros D.V:
John Aldred, England, B2396, victory number 3.
Lt C. Runnels-Moss, B2423, unknown.