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Gnther Ltzow was a German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace credited with 110 enemy aircraft shot down in over 300 combat missions. Apart from five victories during the Spanish Civil War, most of his claimed victories were over the Eastern Front in World War II. He also claimedvictories over the Western Front, including two victoriesone of which was a fourengined bomberflying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.

Ltzow was born onSeptember 1912 in Kiel, at the time the capital of the Province of SchleswigHolstein, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the third of five children of Friedrich Ltzow, a naval officer, and his wife Hildegard, ne Kinzel. He had an older brother, Werner, an older sister, Liselotte , a younger sister, Hildegard, and a younger brother, Joachim. The family at the time lived at the Reventloualleeon the west bank of the Kieler Frde. This was close to the German Imperial Naval Academy where his father attended a twoyear Admiralty Staff training course. Following the outbreak of World War I, his father was posted to the staff of the Fhrer der Unterseeboote Fregattenkapitn Hermann Bauer, and the family had to move to Wilhelmshaven.

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