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To: Calvin Locke

He did quite a bit:

Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat.


20 posted on 10/15/2015 9:19:10 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: USMCPOP

That’s more than entire division of tanks. 400 tanks to a division, generally.

Impressive. The tanks were likely Russian, I would imagine.


30 posted on 10/15/2015 10:51:44 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: USMCPOP

Hans-Ulrich Rudel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel


34 posted on 10/15/2015 2:45:58 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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