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......give it up!....your argument went down in flames a long while back!!!!
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Right- I lost- in Bizarro World!! Name me ANYONE in WW2 better than this guy:

Hans-Joachim Marseille, GERM, 158 Kills... His final score included 101 Curtiss Tomahawks and Kittyhawks, 30 Hurricanes, 16 Spitfires and 4 bombers ... He returned to North Africa on 23 August 1942 and, flying a new Bf 109F, carried on from where he had left off. The achievement for which he is probably best remembered came on 1 September. Taking off at 07.30 to escort JU 87s, he spotted 10 Kittyhawks approaching just as the divebombers began their attack. In the space of two minutes he shot down two of the fighters; then, as the JU 87s withdrew, he accounted for another. On the way back to base, his flight was intercepted by Spitfires and during the next nine minutes six of them had fallen to Marseille's guns. On landing at 09.14, his armourer found that he had used just 20 cannon shells and 60 rounds of machine-gun ammunition to down nine aircraft. That day he flew two more sorties and shot down another eight aircraft, including five P-40s in the space of six minutes. His total of 17 in one day was only beaten once, by Emil Lang on the Russian Front. Adolf Galland was moved to call him 'the unrivalled virtuoso among fighter pilots of the Second World War'....
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All American and British planes (removing your Russian foible) and SEVENTEEN in one day! And he's just one German among many in the over 100 club! Read the biographies- or google "best fighter pilot ever" to see what others think. Be objective- get over your American solipsism... We had a better Air Force, as good or better planes but our very sensible rotation schedule prevented any of our pilots reaching these heights. Potential doesn't count- in RealityLand the Germans had the best fighter pilots ever in deed!
 
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Leadsky said:
rotenhahn said:
His final score included 101 Curtiss Tomahawks and Kittyhawks, 30 Hurricanes, 16 Spitfires and 4 bombers ....
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What a horrible waste of beautiful aircraft...(said in 2008), not to mention the aircrew.
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As great a pilot as this guy was, and he certainly was a great fighter pilot, when it came to bailing out of a structurally intact aircraft he was a complete putz!!!!.......amazing how many German pilots successfully bailed out of ME-109's in far worse shape,and many wounded no less and this guy runs into the tail!!!!.......oh well......no doubt not to many tears were shed by the allies when he splattered.....


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Grant

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Cool shot of 56th FG Robert Johnson chillin. BTW, his book Thunderbolt! is a great read.

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B-Man2

B-Man2

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Great photo !!
Hub still looked as trim as he was in his day and I bet he could-have jumped back into a P-47 and flew the hell out of it.
 
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