[Sailor Steve]

August 1, 1918


Air War:

0720 English RAF pilot Richard Gammon and Canadian observer Percival Appleby, flyijg a DH.9, shoot down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 2 for both.

0810 Three American pilots in Nieuport 28s share a victory over a Rumpler two-seater:
Donald Hudson, victory number 3.
R.V. Navius, victory number 1.
Jerry Vasconcells, victory number 2.

0811 Donald Hudson shoots down another Rumpler for victory number 4.

0815 Donald Hudson and Jerry Vasconcells share a victory over a Fokker D.VII with a third pilot:
Donald Hudson, number 5.
Ivan Roberts, victory number 2.
Jerry Vasconcells, victory number 3.

0830 English RAF pilot George Henry Benjamin Smith and observer William Harrop, in a DH.9. shoot down a Pfalz D.III Victory number 1 for both.

0900 Two French SPAD aces with Spa 154 share the destructon of a German observation balloon:
Michel Coiffard, victory number 18.
Jacques Erlich, victory number 11.

0902 Michel Coiffard and Jacques Erlich share a second victory over a balloon. Number 19 for Coiffard; number 12 for Erlich.

0905 Michel Coiffard and Jacques Erlich flame a third balloon. Victories 20 and 13 respectively.

0910 German ace Franz Hemer, with Jasta 6, shoots down a Nieuport 28. 1st Lt Arthur L. Whiton, of the American 27th Aero Sqdn, is listed as Missing.

0915 German pilot Richard Wenzl, with Jasta 6, shoots down SPAD XIII 15143 for victory number 5. 1st Lt Oliver T. Beauchamp of the 27th Aero is killed.

0930 German pilot Alfred Fleischer, flying an Albatros D.Va, shoots down a Nieuport 28 for victory number 2. 1st Lt Clifford A. McElvain of the 27th Aero is taken prisoner.

0930 English RAF pilot Harry Goode, in Sopwith Camel E1494 over the Italian Front, shoots down a Roland C.II for victory number 3.

0930 German pilot Johannes Jessen, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Nieuport 28 for victory number 1. 1st Lt Richard C. Martin of the 27th Aero is taken prisoner.

0930 German pilot Egon Koepsch, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Nieuport 28 6259 for victory number 5. 1st Lt John L. Hunt, 27th Aero, is killed.

0930 German ace Ernst Udet, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Nieuport 28 6275 for victory number 41. 1st Lt Charles B. Sands of the 27th Aero is killed.

0940 Three French pilots from Spa 154 share the destruction of a German observation balloon:
Paul Barbreau, victory number 6.
Adj Chevalier (no first name given), victory number 3.
Paul Waddington, victory number 8.

0945 German ace Ludwig Beckmann, with Jasta 56, shoots down DH.9 D2855 for victory number 6. Capt J.W. Mathews and 2nd Lt W.A. John, 206 Sqdn, are both killed.

0945 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in a Fokker D.VII, claims a Dorand AR.2 for victory number 41. This is probably one of several Salmson 2.A2s shot down this day.

0945 German pilot Ernst Binkenstein, with Jasta 51, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 2.

1005 Three American SPAD XIII pilots with the 94th Aero Sqdn share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
Robert Z. Cates, victory number 3.
Harvey Weir Cook, victory number 1.
William F. Loomis, victory number 1.

1915 Two RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over a DFW C.V:
Robert Holme, England, D6155, victory number 5. This is Holme's last aerial victory. He will survive the war and take a permanent commission in the RAF. He will die as a passenger in an air crash at Kirkuk, Iraq in 1922.
Henry Rath, Canada, E5964, victory number 4.

1100 German ace Gustav Dörr, with Jasta 45, shoots down a Nieuport 28 for victory number 18.

1100 French ace René Fonck, in a SPAD XIII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 57.

1150 Australian AFC pilot James Joseph Wellwood, in SE.5a D6913, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 1.

1215 Ernst Udet scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a Bréguet 14 for number 42.

1245 German ace Oskar von Boenigk, flying a Pfalz D.III, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 17. ADj-Chef J. Raszewski is listed as Missing.

1245 German ace Karl Thom, with Jasta 21, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 26.

1305 German ace Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos, with Jasta 11, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 7. This is Groos' last aerial victory. He will survive the war and become the director of the Westdeutschen Steinzeug-Werke. He will live until 1997, the last surviving member of Jasta 11, and die at age 103.

1310 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, commanding Jasta 11, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 31. The Jasta was in the process of transitioning from Fokker Dr.Is to D.VIIs at this time, and sources are unclear about which plane the pilots are flying on a given day.

1500 Australian AFC ace Roy Phillipps, in SE.5a D6860, claims a DFW C.V and a Fokker D.VII for victories 13 and 14.

1640 English RAF ace Albert Jones, flying Sopwith Camel C200, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 7. This is Jones' last aerial victory. He will transfer to the Home Establishment on August 13. After that there seems to be no information available.

1752 German ace Robert Heibert, with Jasta 46, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 11.

1755 German pilot Oskar Hennrich, with Jasta 46, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 5.

1758 Oskar Hennrich brings down a second balloon for victory number 6.

1800 Robert Heibert flames his second balloon of the day for victory number 12.

1850 Four American SPAD XIII pilots with the 13th Aero Sqdn shart a victory over two Albatros D.Vs:
Charles Biddle, victories 3 and 4.
H.B. Freeman, victory numbers unknown.
John Joseph Seerley, victories 1 and 2.
William Howard Stovall, victories 1 and 2.

2025 Lothar von Richthofen scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a SPAD for number 32.

2030 Ernst Udet gains his third victory of the day, shooting down a SPAD for number 43.

French ace Eugene Camplan, with Spa 84, shoots down a "Scout" for victory number 7. Camplan is wounded in this fight, ending his combat career. He wil survive the war and live until 1944.

French 23-victory ace Gabriel FErnand Charles Guérin is killed when his SPAD VII spins into the ground while taking off for a patrol.