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Emil "Bully" Lang (14 January 1909 – 3 September 1944) was a Luftwaffe Flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. Lang was credited with 173 aerial victories—144 on the Eastern Front, 29 on the Western Front—and one Soviet torpedo boat sunk in 403 combat missions.

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  • Emil Lang (fighter ace)
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  • Emil "Bully" Lang (14 January 1909 – 3 September 1944) was a Luftwaffe Flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. Lang was credited with 173 aerial victories—144 on the Eastern Front, 29 on the Western Front—and one Soviet torpedo boat sunk in 403 combat missions.
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serviceyears
  • 1939(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1909-01-14(xsd:date)
Commands
  • 5(xsd:integer)
Branch
  • 18(xsd:integer)
death place
  • near Overhespen, Belgium
Nickname
  • "Bully"
Name
  • Emil Lang
Caption
  • Emil Lang
Birth Place
  • Thalheim, now Fraunberg, Germany
Awards
death date
  • 1944-09-03(xsd:date)
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Battles
  • World War II *Eastern Front *Defense of the Reich
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  • The up body of a man, shown from the front. He wears a peaked cap and a military uniform with various military decorations and an Iron Cross displayed at the front of his shirt collar. He is smiling; his eyes are looking to the left of the camera.
placeofburial
  • Lommel, Belgium
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  • Emil "Bully" Lang (14 January 1909 – 3 September 1944) was a Luftwaffe Flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. Lang was credited with 173 aerial victories—144 on the Eastern Front, 29 on the Western Front—and one Soviet torpedo boat sunk in 403 combat missions. Posted to a fighter wing on the Eastern front, Lang claimed his first aerial victories in March 1943. He was credited with 72 victories in a three-week period, among them an unsurpassed total of 18 on 3 November 1943. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) on 22 November 1943 for his 119 victories to that time. By March 1944, his claims totaled 144, for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub) on 11 April 1944. Transferred to the Western front, he claimed his 150th victim during the Normandy Invasion on 14 June 1944. He scored his last three victories on 26 August 1944; on 3 September 1944, he was killed in action over Belgium.
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