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Fritz Kosmahl [Germany]

Name:Fritz Kosmahl
Country:Germany
Rank:Offizierstellvertreter
Squadrons:FA 22
FAA 261
Jasta 26
Victories:9
Born:5 September 1892
Place of Birth:Leipzig
Died:26 September 1917
Place of Death:
Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern House Order
Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
Fritz Kosmahl [Thanks to Carsten Kopke at Arrowsoft Verlag]

Notes
On 10 October 1916, Manfred von Richthofen engaged and badly damaged an F.E.2b. Continuing to fire upon the smoking two-seater, Richthofen was forced to withdraw when he was suddenly attacked from the rear. Kosmahl and his observer, Oberleutnant Neubürger, took this opportunity to move in for the kill and shot down the badly damaged aircraft. What might have been the Red Baron's fifth victory became the third for Kosmahl.

One of the earliest recipients of the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Order of the House of Hohenzollern, Kosmahl died from a stomach wound received in combat near Poelcapelle on 22 September 1917.

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