June 27, 1917
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Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace. The medical student and son of a preacher was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-year-old artilleryman in the early days of World War I earning the honor of a battlefield commission to leutnant. After transferring to aviation and serving some time as an artillery spotter in two-seater reconnaissance airplanes he transferred to flying fighter aircraft in November 1916. He scored the first of his 30 confirmed victories on 16 February 1917. On 27 June 1917 Allmenröder fell to his death near Zillebeke, Belgium. German infantry soldiers retrieved his body from no man's land the night he was killed. He was interred in the Evangelical Cemetery in Wald.
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Birth of Karl Allmenroder, German WWI flying ace.
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