<i id="mwAR0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leutnant" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leutnant">Leutnant</a></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wintgens" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kurt Wintgens">Kurt Wintgens</a> of the then-named German <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Army_(German_Empire)" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German Army (German Empire)"><i id="mwASE">Deutsches Heer's</i></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftstreitkräfte" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luftstreitkräfte"><i id="mwASM">Fliegertruppe</i></a> army air service achieves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wintgens#First_victory_using_a_synchronized_gun" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kurt Wintgens">the first known aerial victory</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Synchronization gear">synchronized machine-gun</a> armed fighter plane, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_E.I" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fokker E.I">Fokker M.5K/MG</a> <i id="mwASc">Eindecker</i>.