Ferenc grasses

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Ferenc grasses

Ferenc Gräser , also Franz Gräser (born October 18, 1892 in Nyírmada , Austria-Hungary , † May 17, 1918 near Treviso , Italy ) was a Hungarian pilot and fighter pilot of the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops in the First World War .

When the First World War broke out, Gräser was a student at the Technical University of Budapest . Gräser started the war in October 1914 in the 72nd Infantry Regiment , but after completing his training, he switched to the reserve officers' school in Esztergom . After successfully completing school in July 1915, he served on the Eastern Front until July 1916 . The following August he volunteered for the aviation troops and was trained as an observer in Wiener Neustadt.

At first he was an observer in the Flik 2 flying company , but was soon assigned to Flik 32 . Here he received flight lessons from another pilot and flew reconnaissance missions as a pilot from September 1917. Like his next unit, both units were stationed on the Isonzo Front. From October 1917 he flew in the fighter pilot company Flik 42J from Prosecco from single-seater type Albatros (Oeffag) D.III . He scored several aerial victories in the Battle of Good Freit.

His last unit from January 1918 was the Flik 61J fighter pilot company under Ernst Strohschneider near Motta di Livenza . On May 17th, he was escorting an aircraft belonging to the Flik 12P photo reconnaissance company when he was attacked by Italian fighters over Treviso and shot down. The shooting was awarded to Sergente Maggiore Antonio Chiri of the 78th Fighter Squadron.

literature

  • Christopher Chant: Aircraft of the Aces - Austro-Hungarian Aces of World War 1. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84176-376-4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief biography (English) accessed on October 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Grasses, Ferenc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grasses, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pilot and fighter pilot
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyírmada , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1918
Place of death near Treviso , Italy