Jagdstaffel 24

Royal Saxon Jagdstaffel 24 was a "hunting group" (i.e., fighter squadron) of the Luftstreitkräfte, the air arm of the Imperial German Army during World War I.

Albatros D.II fighters for the new squadron arrived during December 1916; January 1917 marked its first combat patrols.

[1] Beginning on 26 June 1917, the squadron belonged successively to four different ad hoc Jagdgruppen established to increase combat power.

He would predominate as both commander and ace, scoring 28 victories for his Jasta, and winning the Pour le Mérite, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and Iron Cross.

[5] Wolfgang Güttler and pre-war pilot Kurt Ungewitter served with Jasta 24; both won Iron Crosses.

[6][7] Hasso von Wedel also won the Iron Cross while beginning his military aviation career with the squadron.