air) was one of quality vs. quantity. later in the war, it permitted those who excelled to rack up more and This year has seen the final few falling fast. Este sitio utiliza diferentes tipos de cookies. He died in a car crash during a racing incident on June 11th, 1950 in Nurburgring. He survived the Soviet POW camps and returned to Germany. Ehrler spent most of his wartime experience on the Eastern Front, where he claimed the majority of his victories. A tribute to one of the top fighter aces of the World War II, this new full length biography appears here in its first edition. Similarly, it would be difficult to compare the achievements of Baker. own, unsupported word, his good faith, sufficed. I had 20-10 vision, he said. I miss combat flying to this day, says Ritchie (photographed with an F-4 Phantom at Ellington Airport in Houston), who logged more than 4,000 hours during his Air Force career. kills.
the exceptions. Does Ohlrogge, Werner live in Bremen, Germany? duty and rotated home for training, command, or flight test Krems is very ill, and can't reply. This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.. Rall was shot down eight times and wounded three times. Historically, Barkhorns awards include, of course, the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, later adding the Oaks and Swords. He prefers Grummans F8F Bearcat. La web no puede funcionar correctamente sin estas cookies. experte, Erich Rudorffer, flew over 1,000 missions and was shot down Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. Another matter, which perhaps doesn't have a direct analogy in He passed several checkpoints and even received food from other peasants who couldnt see through his disguise. Post What if some players played year-round? they rarely lost a bomber to enemy fighters. More than 40 years ago, in flying machines sporting swastikas and 20-millimeter cannons, they ranged over Europe, five fighter pilots who between them shot down 821 Allied airplanes. Just before the war, he was stationed on the Franco-German border where he did patrol duty. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. From that moment on, he went to become one of the leading aces of the Luftwaffe. Three points were granted for the destruction of heavy bomber. victories: A fine book on this topic is Bf He holds the seventh place on an internationally recognized list of best pilots in the history of aerial warfare. record of 714 home runs remained the top score. I'm with @shiryu though, I just wish . Las cookies de preferencias permiten a una web recordar informacin que cambia la forma en que se comporta o se ve la web, como tu idioma preferido o la regin en la que te encuentras. As an F-4 pilot in Vietnam, he shot down five MiG-21s. No rotation home for training duty. Follow her on Twitter @kberkowitzthel1. by Raaf_Hornet 26 Sep 2004, 02:17, Post Varying assignments? by Erich Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:04 pm, Post Here you can consult our privacy policy. reserves of manpower, raw materials, and industrial goods (both from It beat the P-51 in the Reno Air Races, he says. 10 Mato DukovacCroatia When Croatia became an independent country in 1941, its government organized an air army that would help the Nazis invade the Soviet Union. Private purchase (Hartmann type) flight jackets with insignia and/or provenance. Back home in Germany, meanwhile, the retired Luftwaffe generals are hardly lionized for their wartime exploits, they said. He and the others downplayed their own abilities in explaining their aerial successes. 258. He and the four other aces were each awarded the Knights Cross, a decoration bestowed much less often than the American Medal of Honor or Englands Victoria Cross. Knight's Cross withOak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds. I had been told I had good eyesight. Gerd flew with the famed Jagdgeschwader 52 squadron on the Eastern Front where he scored the majority of his aerial victories and a price was put on his head by the Red Army. You have to stay focused. Good bye. I believe Stollnberger has passed away. Open navigation menu pilots who flew 200 hp biplanes to those who flew 1,200 hp WW2 Luftwaffe's ability to turn out large numbers of well-trained pilots He was shot down 18 times and was wounded three times and survived. Luftwaffe Aces. Eastern Front; ten of whom shot down more than 200 aircraft. While such a short-sighted policy hampered the For many years Babe Ruth's He achieved his first aerial victory on the French border in a skirmish in September 1939. Would the MiGs be flying on a given day? more missions and more and more aerial victories. In January 1945, his squadron commander was selected to take the fighters to Iwo Jima, a Japanese volcano island. The author of this blog denies to any person or entity of copyright management the authority to charge third parties for reproducing the contents of this blog. In particular, combating the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, flying in a combat box, posed a challenge to the Luftwaffe daytime fighter force. In the Gulf War, none; a few pilots downed The list has 539 people that won the KC and had 5 kills or more. This is a list of World War II flying test1.rur aces in World War II had tremendously . [6], During the 1990s, the German archives made available to the public, including microfilm rolls of wartime records not seen since January 1945. On the other hand, Group Captain 'Johnny' Johnson, the RAF top-scorer . Although a single heavy bomber shot down or damaged still counted as one aerial victory, the accumulated points earned a fighter pilot awards, medals and promotions. monoplanes to those who flew jets in Korea. Discussions on the personalities of the Wehrmacht and of the organizations not covered in the other sections. Confirmation and overclaiming of aerial victories, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Germany&oldid=1142429844, Remains of plane and pilot found in 2007 near, JG 51, JG 2, JG 1, JG 26, Kdo Nowotny, EJG 2, JG 7, ZG 1, ZG 76, SKG 210, JG 26, JG 11, JG 104. This and the / (slash) indicates information discrepancies listed by Aders, Caldwell, Girbig, Held, Obermaier, Spick, Ring, Mathews, Foreman and Zabecki. Of that 457 have died, the last in February 2002. That was the day 27 P51 Mustangs were lost during a thunderstorm while they were on the way to attack Osaka. have fun Chris picking and sorting through, this is who is left amongst the living with the highest awards. In 1942, he was transferred to another unit, Jagdgeschwader 5, where he received an another prestigious medal the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, after achieving 38 kills. In consequence the following pilots were not listed by Mathews and Foreman. I have a number of signed aviation prints, in which some contain Luftwaffe aces autographs, does anyone know whether any of the following are still "with us" ? 6. Wing Commander Paul Farnes was one of the fabled 'Few' and downed at least six German aircraft and . I really dont know, he laughs. They headed off to the Eastern Front as soon as their training was over. He was the highest scoring pilot fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. Weissenbergers military career began in 1936, when he volunteered in the Luftwaffe, after gaining experience as a civilian glider pilot. Perhaps it is America's obsession with records and statistical achievement. Eight of the officers shown here accounted for a total of 1,486 aerial kills. Post Officer's flight blouses and service tunics of the Flight branch. Two years later in 1935, the Treaty of Versailles was renounced and the Reichswehr became the Wehrmacht.The newly formed Wehrmacht would still consist of an army and a navy - the renamed Heer and Kriegsmarine, but a new air force was born as well - the Luftwaffe. Two hundred aerial victories. by Ron Klages Sat Sep 28, 2002 3:55 pm, Post According to Obermaier, 103 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories. U.S. aces of World War Two achieved twenty or more; one of them, Major Richard Bong, shot down 40 During the Battle of Britain, his score reached 17. consider home run hitters in baseball. They always told us dont go head on with the Japanese because they might head in to you. [7] The Luftwaffe was as indoctrinated as the Wehrmacht, and played an active role in the Holocaust. By the following April, he had completed everything except combat training, so he took a short leave and then headed to Fort Myers for the training. More about. And that suggested a possible Mato Dukovac was among the first batch of Croatian pilots trained by the Germans. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Other than being a pilot, he was also a great tactician. I just shot them down. Luftwaffe Fighter Aces: The Exploits and Tactics of Germany's Greatest Pilots Mike Spick 4 Hardcover 11 offers from $15.89 Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45 (Dogfight, 1) Robert Forsyth 57 Paperback 32 offers from $12.10 The Luftwaffe Fighter Force: The View from the Cockpit Adolf Galland 32 Paperback 15 offers from $4.99 On the Russian Front, most aerial combat German day and night fighter pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories during World War II, 25,000 over British or . The man who opened the hunting season on the Eastern Front was Otto Kittel, who earned his first aerial victory on the first day of Operation Barbarossa. After completing his pilot training in June 1942, he went to get licensed on June 15, only to discover he had no birth certificate. As a junior birdman, I never thought about becoming an ace until I had four confirmed kills, says Cleveland. forever. 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