[Sailor Steve]

December 2, 1917:



Western Front

Cambrai: Enemy in vain try to recover high ground about La Vacquerie.

Further fighting north of Passchendaele.



Eastern Front

Brest-Litovsk: Russian and German Peace Delegations welcomed by Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Commander-in-Chief).



Southern Front

Intense artillery action on Asiago Plateau (Trentino).



Ship Losses:

Berwick Law (United Kingdom): The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Ténès, Algeria by SM U-34 with the loss of a crew member.

Birchgrove (United Kingdom): The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay off Groix, Morbihan, France (47°38'N 3°45'W) by SM U-84 with the loss of a crew member.

Carlino (Italy World): The sailing vessel was sunk in the Tyrrhenian Sea east of Corsica, France (42°08'N 7°27'E) by SM U-65.

La Margherita (Italy): The sailing vessel was sunk in the Tyrrhenian Sea east of Corsica (42°11'N 7°20'E) by SM U-65.

La Rance (France): The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the Île de Planier, Bouches-du-Rhône (42°48'N 5°15'E) by SM UC-67 with the loss of four of her crew.

HMT Lord Grey (Royal Navy): The naval trawler was wrecked on the La Barrier Shoal, in the English Channel off Cap Gris Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Minas (Greece): The cargo ship was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Ténès by SM U-34. Her crew survived.

San Antonio Il Vittorioso (Italy): The sailing vessel was sunk in the Tyrrhenian Sea east of Corsica (42°16'N 7°20'E) by SM U-65.

Tasmania (Russia): The full-rigged ship was sunk in the Bay of Biscay south west of Ouessant, Finistère, France by SM UC-17.

SM UB-81 (Kaiserliche Marine): The Type UB III submarine struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Dunnose Head, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, then was rammed by a Royal Navy patrol boat with the loss of either 27 of her 34 crew or 29 of her 35 crew (sources differ). The survivors were rescued by a Royal Navy patrol boat.



Air War:

0945 German ace Max von Müller, flying Albatros D.V 1174/17, shoots down DH.4 A 7422 for victory number 33. 2nd lt David Miller is wounded and taken prisoner. 2nd Lt Arthur Harry Child Hoyles is killed. Later his grave is lost so he is officially listed as Missing.

1005 Five Nieuport pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
Cpl Cadot, France, Escadrille N.88, victory number 2.
Raoul Lufbery, United States, Escadrill N.124 (Lafayette), number 15.
Achille Rousseaux, France, N.88, number 6. This is Rousseaux's last aerial victory. He wil survive the war and die in 1928.
Sgt Vidal, France, N.88, number 1.
Brg Wurtz, France N.88, number 1.

1010 French ace Gabriel Guérin, in a SPAD, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 9.

1030 Canadian RFC pilot Wilfred Beaver and English observer Malcolm Mather, in Bristol F.2b B883, shoot down an Albatros D.III. Victory number 2 for Beaver, number 1 for Mather.

1125 Raoul Lufbery scores his second kill of the day, ahooting down a German two-seater for victory number 16.

1135 German ace Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp, flying Albatros D.III 1954/16, shoots down Bristol F.2b A7292 for victory number 28. Cpt H.G.E. Luchford is killed. Cpt J.E. Johnstone is taked prisoner.

1205 German ace Heinrich Bongartz, in an Albatros D.V, shoots down DH.4 A7661 for victory number 26. 2nd Lts J.T. Orrell and J.G. Glendinning are both killed.

German ace Wolfgang Güttler, in an Albatros D.III, shoots dwon Armstrong-Whitworth FK.8 B3303 for victory number 6. Lt T.R. Hepple is wounded and taken prisoner. AM1 F. Rothwell is killed.