Thursday Snapshot will be:
Star of Africa The event starts at 21.00 CET, 3 PM EST.
Welcome all!!!
Historical Background:
Marseille created a unique self-training program for himself, both physical and tactical, which resulted not just in outstanding situational awareness, marksmanship, and control of the aircraft, but also in a unique attack tactic that preferred a high angle deflection shooting attack and shooting at the target's front from the side, instead of the common method of chasing an aircraft and shooting at it from behind.
His innovative and unique attack method, which was perfected by him to a method for attacking aircraft formations, resulted in his fantastic lethality ratio, and in rapid rate multiple victories per attack, and it is what made him one of the greatest and most innovative fighter aces in history.
On June 6, 1942 Marseille attacked alone a formation of 16 P-40 fighters and shot down 6 P-40s of No. 5 Squadron South African Air Force, five of them in six minutes, including the aces Capt Pare (6 claims), Lt. Goulding (6.5 claims), and Capt. Botha (5 claims).
Marseille died on September 30th 1942 at the age of twenty two when he bailed out of his 109. The smoke filling his cockpit caused him to bail badly and strike the tail of his Messerschmitt.
