What’s incredible is that for the first two years of the war Rudel was thought to be a poor pilot and was denied a combat role because of it.
“What’s incredible is that for the first two years of the war Rudel was thought to be a poor pilot and was denied a combat role because of it.”
Israel’s top all-time ace was initially assigned to helicopters because of an evaluation coming out of flight school that he was not suitable for jet aircraft. Everybody makes mistakes, and sometimes there are late-bloomers, I guess?