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List of aerial victories of Fritz Höhn

List of aerial victories of Fritz Höhn

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Fritz Höhn (1896-1918) was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 21 confirmed aerial victories. As one of the few pilots courageous enough to be a balloon buster, he destroyed ten of the crucial artillery direction posts, as well as we11 as 11 enemy airplanes. He scored his victories flying for four different fighter squadrons, the last three of which he commanded.[1][2][3]

Main article: Fritz Höhn

The victory list

See also: Aerial victory standards of World War I

Fritz Höhn's victories are reported in chronological order, which is not necessarily the order or dates the victories were confirmed by headquarters.

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Abbreviations were expanded by the editor creating this list.

Footnote

  1. [N 1]
    Observation balloons, which granted wide fields of view to aerial observers, were vital assets for directing artillery barrages on the enemy. As such, they were primary targets for aerial attack to destroy them, and were heavily defended by antiaircraft cannons and machine guns, as well as fighter patrols (per Guttman, pp. 7-9).

Citations

  1. [1]
    Guttman 2005, pp. 7–9.
  2. [2]
    Franks, Bailey & Guest 1993, pp. 130–131.
  3. [3]
    The Aerodrome webpage on Fritz Höhn

Sources

  • Franks, Norman; Bailey, Frank; Guest, Russell (1993). Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918. London UK: Grub Street Publishing. ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1.
  • Guttman, Jon (2005). Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1. Oxford UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-877-9.
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