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Max Immelmann (21 September 1890 – 18 June 1916) PLM was the first German World War I flying ace. [1] He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun, which was in fact achieved on 1 July 1915 by the German ace Kurt Wintgens.
Oswald Boelcke, future German aerial tactician, was issued the third production M.5K/MG, which he flew during July 1915 with Feldfliegerabteilung 62, based at La Brayelle Airfield near Douai and shared flying time with Max Immelmann [5] After Boelcke achieved his own first aerial victory on 4 July with an Albatros C.I armed two-seat observation ...
The two most famous 1915–16 era aces of the German Empire's Fliegertruppe, Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann would achieve a six-victory total each to earn the House Order of Hohenzollern by early November 1915 for those confirmed victories, and when each of their totals reached eight, the much-coveted Pour le Mérite was awarded to each ace ...
German ace Max Immelmann (17 victories) is killed at ~2215 hrs. when his Fokker E.III monoplane, 246-16, crashes after breaking up in the air when the interrupter gear malfunctions and he shoots away his own propeller.
Max Immelmann: 15 Otto Löffler 15 Hans-Georg von der Marwitz: 15 Edmund Nathanael: 15 Wilhelm Neuenhofen: 15 Viktor von Pressentin von Rautter: 15 Theodor Quandt: 15 Julius Schmidt (aviator) 15 Kurt Schneider (aviator) 15 Paul Strähle: 15 Reinhold Jörke: 14 Franz Piechulek: 14 Georg Schlenker: 14 Rudolf Wendelmuth: 14 Hans-Joachim Buddecke ...
Max Immelmann † German Empire: Luftstreitkräfte: 15< [c] Pour le Mérite, Military Order of St. Henry, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross The Immelmann turn named after him. John Jones United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 15 Distinguished Flying Medal: Andrew Kiddie South Africa: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force ...
The prototype (a modified B.E.2c airframe fitted with the more powerful 150 hp (110 kW) RAF 4a air-cooled V12 engine) was already in the process of conversion in June 1915, while the "Fokker scourge" cannot be said to have started before the first victory by a Fokker E.I on 1 August, when Max Immelmann shot down a British aircraft that was ...
June 18 – The first German ace, Max Immelmann, is shot down and killed by an FE.2b from the Royal Flying Corps's No. 25 Squadron, a symbolic end to the "Fokker Scourge". He had scored 15 kills. June 24 – Victor Chapman of the Lafayette Escadrille becomes the first American airman to be killed in action, shot down near Verdun-sur-Meuse.