No Such Person On The Ace List

[Teresa Maria]

I suppose he may have been a fictional fighter. Fritz is a fairly stereotypical German name (that's why in German jokes about teachers and pupils the pupil is usually called Fritzchen), and Flugmann (Flug (flight) + Mann (man)) may have been invented as a hypothetical example for pilots to study.

[ghostwriter]

in
HORRIDO! FIGHTER ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE
by col. raymond f. toliver and trevor j. constable

original page 20:

Suppose it is early 1943, at which time forty points were required to qualify a fighter pilot for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Our hypothetical pilot, Captain Fritz Flugmann, has already shot down and confirmed twenty-two single-engined fighters (twenty-two points), five twin-engined bombers (ten points), and two four-engined bombers (six points). Captain Flugmann is an ace with twenty-nine kills, but he has only thirty-eight points—not enough for his Knight's Cross,
"Next day, Flugmanntakes off and damages a B-17, separating it from its box formation, and accomplishes the final destruction of a second B-17 damaged previously by another German pilot. Captain Flugmann now has forty-one points, enough for his Knight's Cross, but he is credited with thirty kills after reconciling the aerial battle with other pilots and getting victory credit for one of the bombers.

http://www.worldhistory.biz/download...eLuftwaffe.pdf

there is your "fritz flugmann" ...


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ghostwriter