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Max
Immelmann
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| Country: |
Germany |
| Born: |
21 September 1890 |
| Place of Birth: |
Dresden |
| Deceased: |
18 June 1916 |
| Rank: |
Oberleutnant |
| Units: |
FA62 |
| Victories: |
15 |
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| Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke were
awarded the Orden Pour le Mérite on 12
January 1916. Later that year, Immelmann was
killed in a dogfight with seven British aircraft.
His death, like that of many other aces, was
controversial. While the British credited the
pilot of an FE.2b with his loss, the Germans
proclaimed that the synchronized machine gun
on his Fokker E.III malfunctioned and he shot
his own propellor off during the heat of battle. |
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