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born in Rhineland Western Germany
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on january 1 1912 josef jacobs became intrested in air craft technology. began to work and look for his furture in the military to work with aircrafts.
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On july 3rd josef was posted to a FA11, the FA11 was a reconnaissance squadron. this was josefs first squadron.
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in the air craft battle on feb 1 1916 josef jacobs gained his first victory ever over a french quadron. mthey were actually un sure who had won because of the lack of witnesses.
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Josef jacob won his first official victory. he had shot it down a quadron by himself. the quadron on crewed its pilot.
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Josef jacobs was sent to protect headquarters. His entire unit was pulled back for months which became more time for them to do body guard duty.
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Josef jacobs began to get sick with some type of virus. it was not dangerous or contagious. With him being sick it took some time from him to protect Charelville
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he got his second victory in a short battle. he fought against a RIV caudron. the quadron was planing to attact a place he had been protecting so he took it down.
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He got his Third offical win. the batlle had 8 unconfired deaths. the battle took place in jasta 22 after the vicroty he moved to jasta 7 to work there.
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in jasta 7 josef jacobs victorys began to rise slowly. for a longer duration of time batlles were coming all the time. when reachin the 24th vicory the battles had began to stop.
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After combat with the Bolsheviks. Jacobs briefly became a flying instructor in the Turkish Army. when he did that got got out of the military activity going on.
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when hitler gained conrol he wanted to completely take over germany. he also wanted josef jacobs to join him. josefs buisness could have help hitler alot. josef denied hitlers request.
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Josef denies to join nazi power. because he denied he had to move away taking his company to the netherlands. so his compay couldnt be harmed.
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He had a buddy out in the netherlands that helped him quite a bit. His friend was apart of the military out there so he provided good protetion during the invasion of germany.
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He owned his own buisness. his buisness was an aicraft buisness he loved alot. his company built aircrafts and fixed them.
