Diary May 9, 1918

05-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Capitaine Rene Fonck is a master of deflection shooting and his sparing of ammunition bordering on the uncanny. His official victory score as a thoughtful and analytical fighter pilot was 75 at the end of the war, but he claimed 127 kills.

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 9, 1918:

Air War

Western Front: French ace Fonck in 5min 50sec (in Spad) destroys 6 German aircraft (again on September 26) over the Somme firing only 52 rounds.
France: Allied Supreme War Council first discusses air policy. 3 of 4 ‘Giant’ bombers flying raids on coastal targets destroyed in crash-landings (fog).

Western Front

Flanders: German attacks in La Cytte-Voormezeele sector.
Somme: French success at Grivesnes northwest of Montdidier.

Southern Fronts

Piave: Lieutenant Carlo Sabatini and 4 Arditi lead Italians onto Mt Corno (Vallarsa valley) and retain it with 100 PoWs against counter-attacks on May 11.

Sea War

Channel: Troop transport Queen Alexandra rams and sinks coastal submarine UB-78 north of Cherbourg.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.