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Helmut Lent

1918 - 1944

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Helmut Lent (13 June 1918 – 7 October 1944) was a German night-fighter ace in World War II. Lent shot down 110 aircraft, 102 of them at night. Born into a devoutly religious family, he showed an early passion for glider flying; against his father's wishes, he joined the Luftwaffe in 1936. After completing his training, he was assigned to the 1. Squadron, or Staffel, of Zerstörergeschwader 76 (ZG 76), a wing flying the Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine heavy fighter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Lent is the 1,035th most popular military personnel (down from 1,006th in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 526th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Helmut Lent ranks 1,035 out of 2,058. Before him are Aleksandr Dvornikov, Fukushima Masanori, Leontius, Otto von Lossow, James Wolfe, and Eugen Ritter von Schobert. After him are Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Arslan Isra'il, Ramón de Cardona, Prince Moriyoshi, and Felice Pasquale Baciocchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Helmut Lent ranks 116. Before him are Adolfo Pedernera, Massimo Girotti, Jerome Robbins, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Edith Massey, and Theodore Sturgeon. After him are Alfréd Wetzler, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Bebo Valdés, George Lincoln Rockwell, Alexander Shelepin, and Leila Mourad. Among people deceased in 1944, Helmut Lent ranks 145. Before him are Bella Rosenfeld, Musa Cälil, Israel Joshua Singer, Felix Nussbaum, Alberts Kviesis, and Andrey Sheptytsky. After him are Tanya Savicheva, Carl Flesch, Wilhelm Falley, Joseph Caillaux, Max Nettlau, and Walter Heitz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Helmut Lent ranks 542 out of 1,694. Before him are Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), Heinz Kessler (1920), Józef Brandt (1841), Emil Krebs (1867), Otto Finsch (1839), and Stefan Żeromski (1864). After him are Hans Woellke (1911), Karol Lipiński (1790), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), and Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Helmut Lent ranks 48. Before him are Georg von der Marwitz (1856), Fritz von Below (1853), Fritz Freitag (1894), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886). After him are Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Max Simon (1899), Otto Lasch (1893), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), and Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818).

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