Helmut Lange
IC was a German World War I
flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviation, military aviator credited with shooting down a certain minimum number of enemy aircraft during aerial combat; the exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ...
credited with nine aerial victories.
World War I
Helmut Lange served in
Jagdstaffel 26 during World War I. He scored nine aerial victories there,
[The Aerodrome website page on Lange http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/lange.php Retrieved 9
August 2011.] under the leadership of
Bruno Loerzer
Bruno Loerzer (22 January 1891 – 23 August 1960) was a German air force officer during World War I and World War II. Credited with 44 aerial victories during World War I, he was one of Germany's leading flying aces, as well as commander of ...
and
Franz Brandt. Lange temporarily commanded of the squadron from 22 August through 12 September 1918.
[The Aerodrome website page on Jasta 26 http://www.theaerodrome.com/services/germany/jasta/jasta26.php Retrieved on 10 August 2011.]
List of aerial victories
See also
Aerial victory standards of World War I
During World War I, the national air services involved developed their own methods of assessing and assigning credit for aerial victories. For various reasons, all belligerents engaged in overclaiming aerial victories to a greater or lesser degre ...
Post World War I
Although Lange almost certainly survived the war, it is not known what became of him.
Endnotes
References
*
Franks, Norman, Frank W. Bailey, Russell Guest (1993). ''Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914-1918''. Grub Street. , .
German World War I flying aces
20th-century deaths
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