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Boelcke was ordered to return from an inspection tour of south-eastern theatres of the War to take command and arrived back on the Western Front later that month. [citation needed] After Max Immelmann's death, Kaiser Wilhelm II had ordered Boelcke grounded for a month to avoid losing him in combat soon after Immelmann. He had become such an ...
Immelmann was killed on 18 June 1916 after his 17th victory. Boelcke, who then had 18 victories, was left the preeminent ace of the war. Upon Boelcke's return from Immelmann's funeral, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered Boelcke grounded for a month to avoid losing him in combat soon after Immelmann. He had become such an important hero to the German ...
Killed by Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families. [35] Newberry massacre: 1916 Aug 18 Newberry: Florida: 6 A white mob shot and killed a black man and then hung two black men, one of which was a minister, and two black women, one of which was ...
When Boelcke was killed in a midair collision, he was the leading ace of the First World War with 40 victories. Boelcke and his protege, Manfred von Richthofen, were the two leading German aces of the war. The Dicta Boelcke tactics manual is still used to train fighter pilots.
He was possibly murdered by his political rival Thomas Ley. In 1947, Ley was convicted at the Old Bailey of the "Chalkpit Murder", that of a barman in England, and sentenced to hang, but was then declared insane and sent to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage two months later. [53] 30 October 1926
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Murdered at least five women and girls in Ohio and Indiana. Executed in August 1904. [213] Denver Strangler: United States: 1894–1903: 3–5: Unidentified serial killer who operated in Denver, Colorado. He murdered three prostitutes in a 10-week span in 1894 and was suspected of two later murders. [214] Schultz (given name unknown) German ...
Kampfgeschwader' 27 Boelcke was a Luftwaffe medium bomber wing of World War II. Formed in May 1939, KG 27 first saw action in the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. During the Phoney War —September 1939 – April 1940—the bomber wing flew armed reconnaissance missions over France .