[Sailor Steve]

May 8, 1918


Air War:

0710 Belgian pilot Willy Coppens, flying an Hanriot HD.I, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 2.

0820 German ace Karl Bolle, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down SE.5a C6408 for victory number 9. Lt J.C. Wood is wounded and taken prisoner.

0835 German pilot Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp, with Jasta 36, shoots down SE.5a B8410 for victory number 4. Capt C.C. Clark is wounded and taken prisoner.

0935 English RAF pilot Arthur Claydon, in SE.5a C1089, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 2.

0937 German pilot Erich Buder, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 2.

0940 German pilot Fritz Classen, flying a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down an SE.ta for victory number 3.

0940 German ace Fritz Loerzer, in a Fokker Dr.I shoots down an SE.5a for victory 10.

0945 German pilot Helmut Lange, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 2.

1015 Canadian RAF ace pilot George Bulmer and English observer Percy Williams, in Bristol F.2b C4888, shoot down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 6 for Bulmer; number 5 for Williams.

1015 English RAF pilot Arthur Claydon, in SE.5a C1089, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 3.

1015 English RAF pilot Samuel Thompson, flying Bristol F.2b B1162 with Sgt L. Kendrick as observer, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 2.

1020 Two Canadian RAF Sopwith Dolphin pilots share a victory over an Albatros D.V:
Albert Carter, C4017, victory number 25.
Gordon Irving, C3799, victory number 4.

1028 American ace Paul Baer, in a SPAD VII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 6. This is possibly Uffz Paul Fritz and Ltn Ulrich Haupt of FlAbt 240, both killed.

1115 English RAF pilot William Edward George Mann, in Sopwith Camel D1845, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 1.

1115 Canadian RAF pilot James White, in Sopwith Camel B6321, shoots dwon an Albatros D.V for victory numbere 3.

1150 German ace Otto Rosenfeld, flying with Jasta 41, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 9.

1230 German ace Eduard von Schleich, in an Albatros D.Va, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 26.

1230 German pilot Julius Trotzky, with Jasta 43, shoots down Sopwith Camel D1852 for victory number 1. Capt C.R. McDonald is killed.

1232 Eduard von Schleich scores his second kill of the day, ahooting down another SE.5a for victory number 27.

1235 Eduard von Schleich brings down his third SE.5a for number 28 overall.

1400 English RAF pilot Stanley Wallage and Canadian observer Geroge Thomson, flying Bristol F.2b C795, shood down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 4 for Wallage; number 1 for Thomson.

1420 German ace Karl Bolle, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 10.

1420 German pilot Friedrich Kempf, in Fokker Dr.I 213/17, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 4.

1645 English RAF pilot Victor Emmanuel Groom and observer Ernest Hardcastle, in a Bristol F.2b, shoot down a Fokker Dr.I. Victory number 1 for both.

1738 Paul Baer scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a German "scout" for victory number 7.

1745 American RAF pilot Reed Gresham Landis, flying SE.5a B189, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 1.

1825 Welsh RAF pilot James Ira Thomas Jones, in SE.5a C6406, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

1920 Canadian RAF ace William Barker, in Sopwith Camel B6313, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 24.

1920 Eglish RAF observer, riding in DH.9 C6108 with Lt N.C. MacDonald as pilot, shoots down an Albatros D.V for victory number 2.

2015 German ace Emil Thuy, in a Pfalz D.IIIa, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 20.

2030 German pilot Gerhard Flecken, flying with Jasta 43, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 4.

Ltn G. Brockhoff, with Marine Feld Jasta 2, shoots down a "Sopwith" for victory number 1.

German pilot Albin Buhl, with MFJ 4, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 3.

German pilot Hermann Kunz, with Jasta 55, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 4. Lt W.H. Hargreaves, of the 50th KBS, is killed.

German pilot Gustav Schniedewind, with Jasta 55, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 5.

German Ltn R. Weinert, flying with MFJ 2, shoots down a DH.4 for victory number 1.