[Sailor Steve]

January 30, 1918

Air War:

1045 Three RNAS Sopwith Camel pilots share a victory over two Albatros D.Vs:
Aubrey Ellwood, England, B6242, victories 2 and 3.
James Glen, Canada, B6408, bictories 8 and 9.
Leonard Rochford, B6401, victories 7 and 8.

1050 Canadian RFC pilot Earl Hand, in Sopwith Camel B4609 over the Italian Front, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 3.

1140 English RFC pilot Sydney Oades and observer Stanton William Bunting, in Bristol F.2b B1152, shoot down a German two-seater. Victory number 5 for Oades, number 1 for Bunting.

1145 English RFC pilot John McCudden, in SE.5a C5310, shoots downa an Albatros D.V for victory number 3.

1225 English RFC ace James Coombe, in Nieuport 27 B6826, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 6.

1230 German pilot Vfw Mikat (first name not listed), possibly flying a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a SPAD for his only victory, after which he disappears from the records. Md/L Raymond Varnier of Escadrille Spa 57 is wounded. Mikat's plane is based on the fact that Jasta 14 was one of only three Jastas completley equipped with Dr,Is, though the exact dates are uncertain.

1245 German ace Harald Auffarth, with Jasta 29, shoots down Bristol F.2b C4832 for victory number 8. 2nd Lt G.G. Johnstone is killed. AM2 A.R. Duff is wounded, later dying from his wounds.

1330 English RMAS pilot Charles Bartlett and ace observer Walter Naylor, in DH4 N6001, shoot down an Albatros D.V. Victory number 2 for Bartlett; number 6 for Naylor.

1330 English RNAS observer Charles Victor Robinson, riding in DH.4 A7744 with Sub-Lt J.M. Mason as pilot, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1410 Canadian RFC pilot Kenneth Junor, in SE.5a C9532, shoots down Albatros D.Va 4630/17 for victory number 2. Obltn Bruno Justinius (1 victory) is killed.

1420 English RFC pilot Rex George Bennett,flying Bristol F.2b A6404 with AM2 Matthews as observer, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1420 German pilot Karl Bolle, in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down DH.4 N6982 for victory number 5. Sub-Lt G.P. Williams and Lt C.A. Leitch are both killed.

1420 Two RNAS Sopwith Camel pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
Miles Day, England, N6363, victory number 3.
John Paynter, England, B3782, victory number 4.

1425 German ace Heinrich Kroll, in a Pfalz D.III, claims a Bristol F.2b for victory number 19. The only one reported lost this day was the one shot down by Auffarth at 1245.

1425 Canadian RFC pilot David McGoun and English ace observer Cyril Agelasto, in Bristol F.2b C4828, shoot down an Albatros D.V. Victory number 4 for McGoun; number 6 for Agelasto.

1510 English RNAS pilot Walter George Raymond Hinchliffe, flying Sopwitn Camel B6204, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

Four French pilots share a victory over an "Enemy Aircraft":
S/Lt Borde, aircraft and victory number unknown.
Jules Covin, SPAD VII, victory number 5.
Jacques Gerard, SPAD VII S4236, victory number 1.
M/Lt Lienhard, aircraft and victory number unknown.

German pilot Gerhard Fieseler, in an Albatros D.III over the Macedonian Front, shoots down a Nieuport 17 for victory number 2.

German pilot Wolfgang Plüschow, in an Albatros D.III over the Italian Front, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 1.

Italian pilot Antonio Reali, in a Nieuport 27, shoots down an Austrian two-seater for victory number 4.

German pilot Albert Hurrle (3 victories) is killed in combat. Victory unknown.