What's your favorite lufwaffe ace's or allies??

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phule
Great minds and all that! We are a majority of two. LOL

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moelders, was great . priller had the most. but all of the combat doctrines used at top gun are from the teachings of adolf galland. his teachings are the premiss of all modern air combat that my friends does not just speak alot but it speaks volumes , also i noticed
i didnt here names like p-47 aces robert s johnson and gabby gabbroski from the eto
also aces from the pto like bong, mcguire ,boyington , every country involvoed in that great conflict all had aces of one level or another but they all started at 5 and thru chance
and circumstance there skills grew but lest we not forget those many thousands of
pilots who paid the ultimate price in that race to 5 axis and allied alike one thing made
them all brothers then and now those silver wings
but thats just how i feel, hillbilly70631

remember friendly -fire isn’t friendly

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Hi there,

Sadly, Gunter Rall passed away recently. I am currently in the process of writing biographies of every Luftwaffe ‘Ace’ with, like you, the intention to build a model for each. However, there are unofficial reports that there may be as many as 2400 official Luftwaffe ‘Aces’!!

Man, thats a lot of models!!! [:O]

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I will have to say several WWII pilots that I have had the fortune to meet, having been involved with the Wings over Houston Airshow autograph tent for a while now. Last year our guest included Tex Hill ( AVG), Archie Donahue (Marine F4U pilot , twice ace in a day and a total of 14 victories), Bob Morgan (Memphis Bell pilot), Jim Hill and Tom Emrich (Blacksheep pilots) and took them out for dinner after the show. Last weekend we had a table set up at the San Antonio IPMS regional show in honor of friend (my lifelong Hero) Tex Hill, and was invited over to his house. He took my wife and I on a tour of his office and it was amazing. After that ,Tex and his wife Mazie, his daughter Shannon and husband Don Schaupp, the parents of Major Reagan Schaupp, USAF and author of the book “Tex” Hill- Flying Tiger, went out for, oddly enough, chinese buffet. What a great Hero.

Tim Landers

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I built OSKAR ROMM’S Fw 190 D9 from HASEGAWA’S 1/32 scale kit. My dad was a wwII fighter pilot in the Pacific theater and had a chance to meet many axis pilots after the war. He met OSKAR ROMM in the mid 1960s and was impressed that his 92 kills came operating in the western front against AMERICAN and BRITISH pilots, not the less skilled POLISH and RUSSIAN pilots in inferior aircraft.
As for allied pilots, give me GEORGE PREDDY any day!!

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1.Galland
2.Bud Anderson
3.Hartmann

Those are my faves.

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Let me throw my vote for Josef Priller, and Erich Hartman, and Nowotsky.

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Hey guys, two pages into this topic and no-one has mentioned Walker “Bud” Mahurin? According to a post on another website he has been in hospital for the last week with no visitors allowed, I pray he will be OK . He flew P47’s with the 56th FGp (Hub Zemke’s Wolf Pack) in the ETO, scoring 21 kills. He was then shot down and evading capture, returned to England. He was then transfered to the Pacific scoring another kill there flying P51’s. After that he flew F86 Sabres in Korea and was credited with 3.5 kills. Absolutely one of the great fighter pilots. I know for a fact my way of life (and this great country I live in) has been preserved by men like him and I am very grateful. He has my admiration and my prayers. My “Spirit of Atlantic City” P47 build is definately inspired!

Cheers…Snowy.

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i can’t speak for the ruskies, but as regaards the poles being inferior pilots, remember that 303 sqn had the best record in the battle of britain, and that was mainly poles along with other eastern europeans.
i’m currently building a hurricane flown by josef fantisek of 303 who was “britain’s” leading battle of briatin ace, and he was czech (kind of obliged as my lovely girlfriend is czech[;)]).
inferior planes perhaps (definitely at the outset of WWII anyway), but inferior pilots i’m not so sure…
food for thought: thanks to their like, i’m in zis deutsch ge-typen nicht!![:0]
(only kidding guys[;)])
regards,
nick

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Adolf Galland and the Flying Tigers. [:)]

@Kingtiger332: Try using Google’s language tools. It aint perfect but it sure helps. [:D]

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Polish Pilot Witold Urbanowicz story http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/urbano/urbano.htm

Tim Landers

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My favorite Luftwaffe and Allied aces:

Luftwaffe-E. Hartmann w/his ME-109’s
Allied -Robert Johnson w/his P-47’s

great planes, great pilots

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Hi steve, when he was passed away you mean this years… what month & date…
i/m quite deeply sad bout his dead
Do you have any related link about his dead any pics…
thnx for info…

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Just recently hasegawa has release P-51D with george preddy marking…im reconsider to order it… For more info here:

http://www.1999.co.jp/asp/shop_right_e.asp?Bno=&Typ1_c=102&Typ2_c=105&Typ3_c=114&sortID=1&thumb=1&Spage=1

http://www.1999.co.jp/asp/GoodsDetails_e.asp?Bno=&Typ1_c=102&Typ2_c=105&Typ3_c=114&SPage=1&SC=265&SN=Airplanes+and+Helicopters+1%2F48&It_c=10035898&andor=0&scope=0&scope2=0&thumb=1&sortID=1&urikire=1&sort_sort=0&ItKey=&app_url=shop_right_e.asp

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the red baron? hehehehe[:D]

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Hi Kingtiger332,

I think Gunter Rall passed away back in November. It has just been reported in a recent copy of FlyPast magazine.

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thnx steve for info…
guys anybody know any luftwaffe or veteran still alive these year?? i know its stupid question… [#wstupid]

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