Here is just the portion of the top Aces that I could capture in a screenshot. Hartmann at the top of the list was finally released from his Russian prison in 1955 after they imprisoned him on false charges.
Here is just the portion of the top Aces that I could capture in a screenshot. Hartmann at the top of the list was finally released from his Russian prison in 1955 after they imprisoned him on false charges.
It doesn’t take much to make inflated claims. As I said earlier my family experience is actually 3 to 1 in Russian favor.
See that Gerhard Barkhorn with 301 kills? In the 50s he was trying to hover a Hawker jump jet and crashed it. They rushed to the wreck and as they helped him climb out, he said, “Drei hundert und zwei!”