==Childhood, education and early career==Helmut Lent was born on 13 June 1918 in Pyrehne, district of Landsberg an der Warthe, Province of Brandenburg, Germany (now Pyrzany, Lubusz Province, western Poland) and christened Helmut Johannes Siegfried Lent.
5. oktobra 1944 je Lent pilotiral Junkers Ju 88 na rutinskem tranzitnem poletu med Stadejem in Nordborchenom.