BALLOONS VS AIRCRAFT

Balloon and airship victory credits in WW1



  The lists

All the lists present the following data:
Name and (when known) first name are presented with arbitrary choice for the spelling (russian, german, arab names...).
RANK of the pilot: see the rank page for the meaning of the abbreviations and the equivalence.
According to the pages, COUNTRY, NATION for the nationality or ethnic origin, AIR_SERVICE for the air arm, are provided.
The number of victories represents usually the total of kills (individual plus shared). The shared kills are indicated when known under the form [indiv+shared]. The official score is indicated when different from the total (American and British scores of ww2 for example).
Authors of the SOURCES column are given; report to the bibliography page to find the books, articles, web pages in alphabetical order. The OTHER_SOURCES column presents the divergent scores with sometimes the author of the source.
The DETAIL column shows occasionally the type of kill, balloons, V-1s, ground kills, unconfirmed kills...
The NOTE column exposes different commentaries and for lack of space, abbreviations are used: report to the abbreviation page for their meaning.




Updated: 08/11/2007

Rank First Name Name Country Ww1 Victories Sources Detail Air Service Units Death Note Other Sources
Hptm Alfred HORN Germany 1 J.Mortane (1 a/c claimed 1916) Heereluftschiffe Zeppelin L.77 21/01/1916 Zeppelin kommandant, 1916. KIA.
Hptm Erich LINNARZ Germany 1 J.Mortane (1 MF.37, Holland, 1916) Heeresluftschiffe Zeppelin LZ-38, LZ-79 Zeppelin kdt, London raids, 1916-17.
Hptm Hans MASIUS Germany 1 J.Mortane (1 Btitish fighter, 1916) Heeresluftschiffe Zeppelin Z.IX, LZ-35, LZ-72, LZ-87, LZ-88, LZ-107 Zeppelin kdt 1914-17.
Kptltn Heinrich MATHY Germany 1 T.Henshaw (attacking BE2c FTL) Marineluftschiffe Zeppelin L.13, L.31 01/10/1916 Zeppelin master, KIA, 1916.
Henri PELTIER France 1 F.W.Bailey-C.Cony (1 German Albatros, 1917) Av.Mil.fra. 71 Cie (balloon observer) Balloon observer, 1917. unconf
LtndR Anton WÖSTMANN Germany 1 (1 Russian a/C, 1916) Fliegertruppe FLA3 (balloon observer) Balloon observer, Russian front, 1916.
Table: Balloon and airship victory credits in WW1


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