April 26, 1916
Air War:
Irish RFC pilot Joseph Cruess Callaghan, flying FE.2b 5232 with 2nd Lt James Mitchell as observer, are attacked by three Fokker Eindeckers, led by German pilot Max Mulzer. Callaghn manages to land his badly damaged "Fee" safely on his own side of the lines, and he and Mitchell are credited with shooting down one of the Fokkers before Mitchell is killed in the action.
French ace Charles Nungesser, in a Nieuport 11, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 7.
Scottish RFC pilot William John Charles Kennedy-Cochrane Patrick, in Nieuport 16 5172, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 1.
Celtic Sea:
Otto Steinbrinck, commanding UB-18, stops and scuttles British fishing smack Alfred, 24 tons, raising his total to 38 ships and 34,977 tons.
North Sea:
Dutch tug Noordzee, 298 tons, hits a mine laid by Alfred Nitzsche in UC-10. His score is now 11 ships and 19,880 tons. Dutch freighter SS Dubhe, 3,233 tons, carrying a load of maize from Baltimore to Amsterdam, also hits a mine laid by Nitzsche but is beached and later refloated.
German East Africa:
Cruiser HMS Challenger escorts HMS Manica, which is using an observation balloon in an attempt to spot enemy troop positions.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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