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 swald Boelcke was born in Giebichenstein a district of Halle, eastern part of Germany, on May 19, 1891. The day before the outbreak of WW1 he passed his pilot's exams. In August 1915 The German officer saved a French boy who fell in a canal. For this action he received the Prussian Life Saving Medal which he valued as highly as his other famous awards. As a Jagdstaffel commander he chose a certain Manfred von Richthofen as one of his disciple pilots.
Oswald Boelcke died in the war after a crash with another German plane flown by Erwin Böhme on October 28, 1916.
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