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Updated: June 26, 2025
Berlin admitted the loss, adding that the Herzmann's commander and most of her crew were saved. During the night of June 16, 1916, the British destroyer Eden collided with the transport France in the English Channel and sank. Thirty-one men and officers escaped.
He turned and walked over to a large wall map. "Take a look at this all three of you," he said. "This is a detailed map of our sector. G 2 believes that the Germans are planning to strike north of here, perhaps just south of Soissons. One of their reasons for this suspicion is that information has reached G 2 to the effect that Count von Herzmann's Circus has pulled out from Roncheres.
"What about Hank Porter?" he asked, to shift the subject. Larkin shook his head, dismally. "Another one of Herzmann's Circus filled him full of lead, but he tooled his ship back home before he fainted from loss of blood. He's in a hospital for the rest of the war. May never walk again." McGee decided to do no more roll calling for the day. It was altogether too depressing.
It was so in von Herzmann's case. The German army could ill afford to lose one who was so brilliant in his operations and so firmly established as one of the popular national idols.
But in that dive, which brought him all too close, Larkin caught sight of the insignia on the plane a German eagle perched on a lettered scroll. It was von Herzmann's Circus! Larkin's heart leaped. He kicked his left rudder savagely and wheeled left, thundering after the green and gold plane that was streaking homeward. Get that plane, get that plane! ran through his mind. All else faded.
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