 Flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109, he claimed all of his victories against the Western Allies.Helmut Paul Emil Wick was born on 5 August 1915 in Mannheim, Germany, the youngest of three children of a agricultural engineer, Karl Wick and Berta Wick, née Schenck.Helmut's eldest brother Walter was born in Swakopmund, at the time in the German protectorate in South-West Africa.