Helmut Lange IC was a German World War I

flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...

credited with nine aerial victories.

World War I

Helmut Lange served in

Jagdstaffel 26 Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 26 was a "hunting group" (i.e., fighter squadron) of the ''Luftstreitkräfte'', the air arm of the Imperial German Army during World War I. As one of the original German fighter squadrons, the unit would score 177 verifie ...

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 o ...

and

Franz Brandt Leutnant Franz Brandt (13 February 1893 – 1954) was a German World War I flying ace credited with ten confirmed aerial victories, as well as three unconfirmed claims.The Aerodrome website page on Brandt http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/br ...

. 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

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 {{Germany-mil-bio-stub