Hans Böhning

Leutnant Hans Böhning, Iron Cross, was a German World War flying ace credited with 17 aerial victories.

He began his flying career with Feldflieger Abteilung (Field Flier Detachment) 290, which was an artillery cooperation unit, on 26 April 1917.

He was then transferred to Royal Bavarian Jagdstaffel 76 and scored his fifth win over opposing fighter planes on 1 December 1917.

[1] He now began his greatest string of victories while flying a Pfalz D.III with his initials painted aft of the cockpit.

[1] During its restoration in 2013, Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's airworthy reproduction Albatros D.Va was changed from Eduard Ritter von Schleich's color scheme to that of Böhning's, when he flew for Jasta 76, with its prominent Rautenflagge rhombus-patterned Bavarian light-blue/white checkerboard state colors for its rear fuselage.

Böhning began his career in a Pfalz D.IIIa like this one.)
The later Albatros D.Va of Leutnant Böhning, Jasta 79