LT, GERMAN FLYING CORPS WORLD WAR I
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Lt Allmenroder was killed in action on 6-27-1917 while flying in the area of Zillebeke, Germany.
Lt. Allmenroder was the son of a Lutheran Pastor, and was in the German Army being assigned to the 20th Field Regiment where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class in Poland, and he went into the Air Service on 3-29-1916. He was posted to Jasta 11 {Royal Prussian}which was led by Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen. He was a recipient of the Blue Max {Pour le Merite}. Before he was killed in a "Dogfight", he had 29 kills.∼Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace.
The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning the honor of a battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916.
Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, took command of Jasta 11 in January 1917. His protege Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder fell to his death near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be befouled by the Nazi Party.
Allmenröder reached 30 victories (a Nieuport flown by Lt CC Street of No 1 Squadron RFC on 26 June) before being shot down at 0945 hours on 27 June 1917. The cause of Allmenröder's death is debatable, but he died from a crash near Zillebeke. German infantry soldiers retrieved his body from no man's land the night he was killed. It was a ghoulish detail; the crashed Albatros was so embedded in a hasty cemetery of casualties from the year before that it took two hours to disinter Allmenröder from the decomposing bodies around him.
He was interred in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wald. His brother Wilhelm later married Karl's fiancee, Helene Kortenbach.
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Lt Allmenroder was killed in action on 6-27-1917 while flying in the area of Zillebeke, Germany.
Lt. Allmenroder was the son of a Lutheran Pastor, and was in the German Army being assigned to the 20th Field Regiment where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class in Poland, and he went into the Air Service on 3-29-1916. He was posted to Jasta 11 {Royal Prussian}which was led by Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen. He was a recipient of the Blue Max {Pour le Merite}. Before he was killed in a "Dogfight", he had 29 kills.∼Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace.
The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning the honor of a battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916.
Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, took command of Jasta 11 in January 1917. His protege Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder fell to his death near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be befouled by the Nazi Party.
Allmenröder reached 30 victories (a Nieuport flown by Lt CC Street of No 1 Squadron RFC on 26 June) before being shot down at 0945 hours on 27 June 1917. The cause of Allmenröder's death is debatable, but he died from a crash near Zillebeke. German infantry soldiers retrieved his body from no man's land the night he was killed. It was a ghoulish detail; the crashed Albatros was so embedded in a hasty cemetery of casualties from the year before that it took two hours to disinter Allmenröder from the decomposing bodies around him.
He was interred in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wald. His brother Wilhelm later married Karl's fiancee, Helene Kortenbach.
LT, GERMAN FLYING CORPS WORLD WAR I
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Lt Allmenroder was killed in action on 6-27-1917 while flying in the area of Zillebeke, Germany.
Lt. Allmenroder was the son of a Lutheran Pastor, and was in the German Army being assigned to the 20th Field Regiment where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class in Poland, and he went into the Air Service on 3-29-1916. He was posted to Jasta 11 {Royal Prussian}which was led by Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen. He was a recipient of the Blue Max {Pour le Merite}. Before he was killed in a "Dogfight", he had 29 kills.∼Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace.
The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning the honor of a battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916.
Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, took command of Jasta 11 in January 1917. His protege Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder fell to his death near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be befouled by the Nazi Party.
Allmenröder reached 30 victories (a Nieuport flown by Lt CC Street of No 1 Squadron RFC on 26 June) before being shot down at 0945 hours on 27 June 1917. The cause of Allmenröder's death is debatable, but he died from a crash near Zillebeke. German infantry soldiers retrieved his body from no man's land the night he was killed. It was a ghoulish detail; the crashed Albatros was so embedded in a hasty cemetery of casualties from the year before that it took two hours to disinter Allmenröder from the decomposing bodies around him.
He was interred in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wald. His brother Wilhelm later married Karl's fiancee, Helene Kortenbach.
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Lt Allmenroder was killed in action on 6-27-1917 while flying in the area of Zillebeke, Germany.
Lt. Allmenroder was the son of a Lutheran Pastor, and was in the German Army being assigned to the 20th Field Regiment where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class in Poland, and he went into the Air Service on 3-29-1916. He was posted to Jasta 11 {Royal Prussian}which was led by Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen. He was a recipient of the Blue Max {Pour le Merite}. Before he was killed in a "Dogfight", he had 29 kills.∼Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace.
The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of the First World War, earning the honor of a battlefield commission to Leutnant on 30 March 1915. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes, he transferred to flying fighter aircraft with Jagdstaffel 11 in November 1916.
Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, took command of Jasta 11 in January 1917. His protege Karl Allmenröder scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. Flying a scarlet Albatros D.III trimmed out with white nose and elevators, Allmenröder would score until 26 June 1917, the day before his death. On 27 June 1917, Karl Allmenröder fell to his death near Zillebeke, Belgium. His posthumous legacy of patriotic courage would later be befouled by the Nazi Party.
Allmenröder reached 30 victories (a Nieuport flown by Lt CC Street of No 1 Squadron RFC on 26 June) before being shot down at 0945 hours on 27 June 1917. The cause of Allmenröder's death is debatable, but he died from a crash near Zillebeke. German infantry soldiers retrieved his body from no man's land the night he was killed. It was a ghoulish detail; the crashed Albatros was so embedded in a hasty cemetery of casualties from the year before that it took two hours to disinter Allmenröder from the decomposing bodies around him.
He was interred in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wald. His brother Wilhelm later married Karl's fiancee, Helene Kortenbach.
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