Originally Posted By: Run With The Fox
But as you detailed old "Fat Boy Hermann's" WW1 nickname, given perhaps by brother pilots in his Jagstaffel-- The iron One-makes me wonder what nicknames Udet, Immelmann and Von Richtofen had back then. In American history, only two famous men that I know of were given nicknames with the Iron theme-

You ovelooked at least one American, namely the "Ace of Aces", the most sucessful American pilot of WW1 with 26 victories, "Iron Man Eddie" Rickenbacker!
And, Josef Wissarionowich Djugachvili became known as Josef Stalin, the "Man of Steel".