Fighter Squadron School (also referred to as Jastaschule) KEK – Kampfeinsitzerkommando: Combat Single-Seater Command, a predecessor to Jasta units Kest...
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service 1914–1917 Rank Leutnant Unit Feldflieger Abteilung 40; Kampfeinsitzerkommando Vaux; Jagdstaffel 4 Commands Jagdstaffel 4 Awards Pour le Mérite;...
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11) was founded on 28 September 1916 from elements of 4 Armee's Kampfeinsitzerkommandos (or KEKs) 1, 2 and 3 and mobilized on 11 October as part of the...
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pince-nez also did not bar him from service. He transferred to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Metz, a temporary grouping of pilots mostly from Feldflieger Abteilung...
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Abteilung 4 (FFA 4); Flieger-Abteilung 62 (FA 62}; Kampfeinsitzerkommando Nord (KEK Nord); Kampfeinsitzerkommando "B" (KEK B); Flieger-Abteilung 32 (FA 32) Awards...
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Brayelle, Douai, France on 25 April. He was quickly passed on to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Douai (Combat Single-Seater Command Douai), arriving 19 May. He...
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Fokker Scourge. Althaus flew with three Kampfeinsitzerkommandos, but had success only with Kampfeinsitzerkommando Vaux. On 3 December 1915, he shot down...
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reconnaissance duties. He then served in an early ad hoc fighter unit, a Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command), claiming a 20 August 1916 aerial...
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1916, he transferred to fighter aviation with his assignment to Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) Bertincourtt. When Jagdstaffel 1...
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wing. By April 1916, he was transferred to an ad hoc fighter unit, Kampfeinsitzerkommando Sivry (Combat Single-Seater Command Sivry). While near Verdun on...
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organization, Kampfeinsitzerkommando B (Combat Single-Seater Command B). On 30 June 1916, he was shot down, but survived uninjured. As Kampfeinsitzerkommando B was...
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of only one arm, he became a pilot. After his first victory with Kampfeinsitzerkommando Vaux, he switched to Jagdstaffel 4, scoring six more victories during...
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was flying a Fokker Eindekker. On 28 June 1916, he transferred to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Avillers. He scored two more victories while with this unit, destroying...
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transferred from there to take up command of a fighter detachment, Kampfeinsitzerkommando Nord. He shot down two enemy airplanes while flying with this detachment...
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an ad hoc unit of Fokker Eindecker fighters at Avillers, France. Kampfeinsitzerkommando Avillers (Combat Single-Seater Command Avilliers, commonly KEK Avillers)...
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Fokker Eindekker pilot for one of the early ad hoc fighter units, Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) Metz, in 1916. He was selected by...
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(Oberschlesien), in present-day Poland. Höhne initially flew with Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) Nord, before moving on for a brief...
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Eindekker Kampfeinsitzerkommando Avillers Nieuport Verdun Casualty from French Escadrille MS3 2 14 March 1916 Fokker Eindekker Kampfeinsitzerkommando Avillers...
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service with Flieger-Abteilung (Flier Detachment) 67, he moved on to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Vaux (Combat Single-Seater Command, Vaux) in April 1916. Between...
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(Flier Detachment) 62, and its co-located ad hoc fighter detachment, Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) Douai. Hess joined Oswald Boelcke...
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he became one of the first German fighter pilots, flying with Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) KEK Einsisheim. He scored six victories...
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outclassed by the Nieuport 11 and 17. A few examples were used by the Kampfeinsitzerkommandos and the early Jagdstaffeln alongside the Halberstadt D.II but the...
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(Artillery)) 203 in 1915 and early 1916. He was then attached to Kampfeinsitzerkommando (Combat Single-Seater Command) Jametz, and scored his first three...
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two-seater reconnaissance units within 2 Armee, as well as from Kampfeinsitzerkommando Vaux and Armee-Flugpark Nr. 2. In June 1917, it switched to support...
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