Stephen W. Thompson
...that when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5, 1918, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
...that when <a href="./World_War_I" id="mwC8U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War I">World War I</a> aviator <b id="mwC8Y"><a href="./Stephen_W._Thompson" id="mwC8c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stephen W. Thompson">Stephen W. Thompson</a></b> downed an <a href="./Luftstreitkräfte" id="mwC8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luftstreitkräfte">Imperial German Army Air Service</a> <a href="./Albatros_D.III" id="mwC8k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Albatros D.III">Albatros D.III</a> on <a href="./February_5" id="mwC8o" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="February 5">February 5</a>, <a href="./1918" id="mwC8s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1918">1918</a>, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?