[Sailor Steve]

July 4, 1918


Air War:

1030 American RAF pilot Walter Carl Simon and Scottish observer William Watson Smith, flying Bristol F.2b C999, shoot down an Albatros D.V. Victory number 1 for both.

1415 German ace Emil Thuy, in a Pfalz D.IIIa, shoots down Sopwith Camel B3858 for victory number 24. 2nd Lt H.R. Frank is killed.

1430 Canadian RAF pilot Ernest Salter, in Sopwith Camel D1948, shoots down a Hannover two-seater for victory number 2.

2030 American RAF pilot Roy Edward Dodds and Canadian observer John Bernard Russel. in DH.9 C6150, shoot down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 1 for both.

German ace Karl Menckhoff, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Sopwith Camel D6494 for victory number 35. 2nd Lt C.H. Atkinson is killed.

German ace Reinhard Treptow, flying with Jasta 25, shoots down a Nieuport 27 for victory number 6. Sgt J. Demdier is killed.