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| Name: |
Erwin Böhme |
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| Country: |
Germany |
| Rank: |
Oberleutnant |
| Units: |
Jasta 2, 29
Kasta 10 |
| Victories: |
24 |
| Born: |
29 July 1879 |
| Place of Birth: |
Holzminden |
| Died: |
29 November 1917 |
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| Place of Death: |
Over Zonnebeke |
| Cemetery: |
Kameradengrab, Langemark German Cemetery  |
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Flying an infantry support mission on 28 October 1916, Böhme's Albatros briefly collided with that of Oswald Boelcke. Böhme survived but Boelcke was killed. On 4 February 1917, Böhme scored his 10th victory by shooting down William Curphey's outdated D.H.2. In combat with a Sopwith two-seater on 11 February 1917, Böhme was shot in the left arm. He was wounded again on 10 August 1917, when a bullet from an enemy scout struck his right hand. Scoring his final victory over a Sopwith Camel on the afternoon of 29 November 1917, Böhme was killed in action later the same day by members of 10 Squadron. He was shot down in flames as he attacked an Armstrong-Whitworth F.K.8 on a photo-reconnaissance mission. |
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| Victories |
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Date |
Time |
Unit |
Aircraft |
Opponent |
Location |
| 1 |
02 Aug 1916 |
a.m. |
Kasta 10 |
Albatros C.III |
Nieuport 12 |
Radzyse |
| 2 |
17 Sep 1916 |
0745 |
Jasta 2 |
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Sopwith 1½ Strutter (A1913) |
NW of Hervilly |
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23 Sep 1916 |
0955 |
Jasta 2 |
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Martinsyde G.100 |
Hervilly |
| 3 |
10 Oct 1916 |
0950 |
Jasta 2 |
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F.E.2b (4856) |
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| 4 |
20 Oct 1916 |
1030 |
Jasta 2 |
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F.E.2b (4867) |
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| 5 |
22 Oct 1916 |
1150 |
Jasta 2 |
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Sopwith 1½ Strutter (7786) |
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| 6 |
09 Nov 1916 |
1510 |
Jasta 2 |
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F.E.8 (6409) |
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| 7 |
22 Nov 1916 |
1410 |
Jasta 2 |
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Morane Parasol (A248) |
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| 8 |
26 Dec 1916 |
1515 |
Jasta 2 |
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B.E.2c |
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| 9 |
07 Jan 1917 |
1230 |
Jasta 2 |
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D.H.2 (7851) |
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| 10 |
04 Feb 1917 |
1505 |
Jasta 2 |
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D.H.2 (A2536) |
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| 11 |
04 Feb 1917 |
1530 |
Jasta 2 |
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B.E.2e (7105) |
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| 12 |
10 Feb 1917 |
1220 |
Jasta 2 |
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D.H.2 |
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| 13 |
14 Jul 1917 |
0720 |
Jasta 29 |
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Nieuport 17 (A6783) |
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| 14 |
19 Sep 1917 |
1047 |
Jasta 2 |
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R.E.8 (B5012) |
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| 15 |
21 Sep 1917 |
0852 |
Jasta 2 |
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R.E.8 (A3617) |
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| 16 |
05 Oct 1917 |
0815 |
Jasta 2 |
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Bristol F.2b (B1133) |
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| 17 |
10 Oct 1917 |
0725 |
Jasta 2 |
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Nieuport 27 (B6791) |
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| 18 |
13 Oct 1917 |
0850 |
Jasta 2 |
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Sopwith Pup (B1800) |
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| 19 |
14 Oct 1917 |
0742 |
Jasta 2 |
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Nieuport 27 (B6778) |
SW of KokelareWieltje |
| 20 |
16 Oct 1917 |
0925 |
Jasta 2 |
Albatros D.II |
Nieuport 17 (B3578) |
Magermeirie |
| 21 |
31 Oct 1917 |
1715 |
Jasta 2 |
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S.E.5a (B544) |
Zillebeke Lake |
| 22 |
06 Nov 1917 |
1150 |
Jasta 2 |
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Sopwith Camel (B2408) |
Molen |
| 23 |
20 Nov 1917 |
1030 |
Jasta 2 |
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Nieuport 17 (5me) |
Osterke |
| 24 |
29 Nov 1917 |
1255 |
Jasta 2 |
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Sopwith Camel |
Zonnebeke |
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| Books |
Franks, Norman, Frank Bailey and Russell Guest. Above the Lines: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914-1918. London: Grub Street, 1993
Franks, Norman and Hal Giblin. Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces: Böhme, Müller, von Tutschek and Wolff: The Complete Record of their Victories and Victims. London: Grub Street, 2003
Treadwell, Terry C. and Alan C. Wood. German Knights of the Air 1914-1918: The Holders of the Orden Pour le Mérite. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1998 |
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