Egon Mayer
Egon Mayer was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 102 enemy aircraft shot down in over 353 combat missions. His victories were all claimed over the Western Front and includedfourengine bombers, 51 Supermarine Spitfires andP47 Thunderbolts. Mayer was the first fighter pilot to score 100 victories entirely on the Western Front.
Mayer, the son of a farmer, was born onAugust 1917 in Konstanz at the Bodensee. Konstanz at the time was in the Grand Duchy of Baden of the German Empire. Mayer grew up on his parents farm named Hauserhof and spent his spare time at the glider airfield at the Bellenberg near Engen. He went to school at the LangemarckRealgymnasiuma secondary school built on the midlevel Realschule to achieve the Abitur in Singen. Today, the LangemarckRealgymnasium, which had been named after the location of the World War I Battle of Langemarck, is the HegauGymnasium.
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