May 3, 1916
Air War:
German ace Ernst von Althaus, flying a Fokker E.IV, shoots down a French two-seater for victory number 6.
Bay of Biscay:
Walther Schwieger, commanding U-20, stops French barque Marie Molinos, 1,945 tons, tavelling in ballast from Nantes to New York, and sinks her with his deck gun. His score is now 29 ships and 117,674 tons.
According to the French captain the u-boat fired 15 shells to sink his ship. The Germans then sailed away. The crew were rescued the following morning by Spanish freighter SS Wenceslao and taken to Villagarcia, Spain.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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