On 11 August, he shared his first win over a German Albatros two-seater with Edgar Tobin.
His triple win on the 29th, when he downed two more Fokker D.VIIs and shared a win over an Albatros two-seater, won him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Albatros D.III | Albatros D.V | Aero L-39 Albatros | Dornier Flugzeugwerke | Albatros Flugzeugwerke | Aero L-59 Super Albatros | Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke | AGO Flugzeugwerke | Pfalz Flugzeugwerke | Grupo Albatros | Albatros L 65 | Albatros L 59 | ''Albatros'' |
Albatros, Fokker, Rumpler and Wright made Adlershof-Johannisthal famous.
In August, Wilson tallied six more wins, starting with an Albatros reconnaissance plane destroyed in cooperation with fellow aces Arthur Reed and Henry Coyle Rath on the 8th.
Albatros-Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot Kurt Tank became head of the technical department and started work on the Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch).
During the war, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters (such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker), reconnaissance aircraft (Aviatik and DFW) and heavy bombers (Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and Zeppelin-Staaken) and airships of all types.