Willi Eduard Gabriel was a German World War I flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories.
Hermann Göring removed Gabriel from combat duty for shooting four enemy airplanes contrary to orders.
[1][2] Willi Gabriel was one of twins born on 31 December 1893 in Bromberg, German Empire (present day Poland).
Early in 1915, he began a series of assignments to artillery cooperation units, often in company with his twin brother Walter.
[1] The Fokker D-VII built by Cole Palen, which flew in the Rhinebeck Aerodrome shows of the 1960s and 1970s, was painted in the scheme of Willi Gabriel, in tribute to him.