![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Pour le Mérite on July 19. I was his favored mount until October 1918, and he used its maneuverability to his advantage, becoming the triplane's highest scoring ace, with over 30 confirmed victories. He had his aircraft finished in a distinctive black scheme. Josef Jacobs is selected to command Jasta 7. ![]() The US Department of the Navy establishes an Office of Naval Aeronautics, the first formal recognition of naval aviation within the United States Navy bureaucracy. She is the first paddle steamer to serve as an aviation vessel. The French Navy seaplane carrier Pas-de-Calais is commissioned. Wintgens battle begins the "Fokker scourge," the first period of German air superiority, in which German Fokker Eindeckers will take a heavy toll of Allied aircraft over the Western Front. Wintgens would down two more Morane Type L two-seaters, one each on July 4 (again unconfirmed) and 15, with the July 15th victory being his first confirmed victory, all achieved with E.5/15. However, the claim is unconfirmed because the aircraft fell beyond German lines. He claimed downing a Morane-Saulnier L two-seat "parasol" observation aircraft over the Western Front. German Leutnant Kurt Wintgens, flying the Fokker M.5K/MG, E.5/15 production prototype of the Fokker Eindecker fighter (one of five built) armed with a Parabellum MG14 gun, achieves the first claimed aerial victory using a synchronization gear which allows a machine gun to shoot through a turning propeller without hitting its blades. ![]()
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