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aerial victory on 23 April against an English pilot northeast of Arras, followed by his 5th confirmed aerial victory on 28 April: (tr.) “I shot down a Sopwith that crashed down east of Quentin behind our lines”. He achieves his 6th aerial victory on 29 April: (tr.) “Around 7:40 p.m. air combat with a Nieuport, which I shot down”. His 7th aerial victory follows on 10May: (tr.) “At 23:05 I shot down an English Rumpf DD and set fire to it; shortly afterwards, it fell apart and dropped to the earth in burning piec- es”. On 17 May 1917, he was appointed squad- ron leader of Fighter Squadron 27 (6thArmy) by the Commanding General of the Air Force, and on 20 May 1917, he took over Fighter Squadron 27 in Bersée, which from 2 June onwards flew in the area of the 4th Army (tr.) “by command of the Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht”. On 8 June, Göring succeeds in his 8th aerial victory in the (tr.) “air combat with an Eng- lish squadron of single seaters, of which I shot down a Nieuport after protracted struggles”. The last page with his combat flights 72 and 73 ends with his signature (tr.) “Completed on 9 June 1917. Göring – lieutenant and squadron leader”. Hard cover binding, with handwrit- ten caption “Göring Lt. - Jagdstaffel 17” and number “IV” in red indelible pencil. Pilot logbooks fromWorldWar I are very rare, and not all of them were written with such me- ticulous precision and love of detail. Moreo- ver, Hermann Göring’s logbooks are of utmost historic significance, for his unemotional and matter-of-fact descriptions give an idea of his bravery and recklessness that many biogra- phers have elaborated on. Hermann Göring, lieutenant as of January 1914, started his training as an observer on 13 October 1914 in the Flying Replacement De- tachment 3, which ended on 27 October. From 28 October until 29 June 1915, he flew on the FFA 25 as observer together with Lt. Loerzer and on 30 June 1915, he started his pilot train- ing in Freiburg, which he finished on 14 Sep- tember to return to the FFA 25. Only four days later his first flight as a pilot took place. On 16 November 1915, he achieved his first aerial victory acknowledged by the chief of staff after having shot down a Farman aircraft (tr.) “in the area of Beauséjour”. 302465 II € 4.000 4530