ROTFLMAO! I had to copy your text here to send to some people who I think would enjoy that comment from a German!
Ah...if only that BS History COULD be rewritten...:)
Makes me wonder what WOULD be impressive to "Europeans"?
Deshalb haben sie den Krieg verloren.
Impressive to Europeans:
Erich Hartmann with 353 kills.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann
or Gerhard Barkhorn with 302 kills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Barkhorn
or Heinz Bär with 220 kills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_B%C3%A4r
not to speak about Hans-Ulrich Rudel who flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record), during which he destroyed almost 2,000 ground targets (among them 519 tanks, 70 assault craft/landing boats, 150 self-propelled guns, 4 armoured trains and 800 other vehicles; as well as 9 planes (2 IL-2's and 7 fighters)). He also sank a battleship, two cruisers and a destroyer. He was shot down or force-landed 32 times (several times behind enemy lines), always somehow managing to escape capture despite Stalin himself putting a 100,000 rouble bounty on his head. He was also wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudel
That is indeed impressive although Rudel was -from the political view- a complete a**hole.
Besides of that - I never said that I want to rewrite history. I even denied it in this thread. Just read:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668443/posts?page=47#47
P.S. I also said that Americans never had the chance to equal scores since they usually were not that long in direct combat service compared to the Germans or the Japanese.