What WW2 ace do you look up to?

[Hand]

Been on this game 3 yrs, first time to post.
My favorite WW2 ace would have to be Lance Wade, a fellow Texan,He joined the RAF in 1940. Became a squadron leader in 1943, (No.145)and
Wing Commander later that year. He is credited with 25 kills.
DFC/ Bar, DSO

[Xasthur]

Luftwaffe pilots are the ones I look up to the most.

There are so many.... all of the well-known ones of course. For the sake of this thread, I'd have to say Adolf Galland




Not so much for his victory tally, but for having a cigar lighter installed in his 109 and for using that 109 to ferry champagne to parties

[Guppy35]

Leland Blair, of the real 80th Headhunters, figured out that he could get 58 bottles fo Scotch into his P38.  Ya gotta like that kind of creative thinking

[Widewing]

Originally posted by Obie303

Widewing, I know that Gabreski was an American.  I included Gabreski because he was of Polish decent and that he did fly for the Polish Air Force, as Gianlupo mentioned.  I must admit though. I do envy you because you've had the opportunity to have met many of these great men!  Dan too!

Obie. Gabby flew for the RAF (with AAF authorization), attached to 315 Squadron, an all Polish outfit.

By the way, you can track down surviving pilots thru various websites and the good old White pages.

My regards,

Widewing

[USCH]

Originally posted by WWhiskey
Bong!!!!:aok

i 2nd that!
Richard I. Bong. leading US ace.
and bubbi of course.

[folkwufe]

Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
Tell you what, if i was put into the position to kill people, and 80 years later some dip **** looks upto me for my deed,ill call him a retard.

And like i said before,you can justify it anyway you want,the rule is the rule.
you TAKE life,you are murder.
does not matter if the life you took WAS a murderer.

Just because you can justify something will never make it right.

"you killed my brother there for that grants me right to slaughter every member of your family."
understand?


and looking upto someone because they killed more people!?
you are nuts, did you ever think most pilots hoped to holy hell the people they shot down made it out alive?
any soldier or pilot preys for peace, because it is them who suffers most.
for the taking of life.
Period.

Now i do not begrudge these people, im just trying to hit two sides of the coin here.



What is amazing is how these people found a way to live past the war with taking life without enough guilt to blow themselfs away.
"and many did,however unknown to there friends/family/community/country"



Life IS such.
Bu|| $|-|17 your selfs otherwise all you want.

if you believe that, why are you playing a game like this? dont say its just a game...

[Brooke]

Originally posted by Shifty


Heinz "Pritzel" Baer

222 Kills Eastern Front, Western Front, and the Med.
109s,190s, and 262s.

Interesting -- he's wearing a US A2 flight jacket.

[Brooke]

Originally posted by Xasthur
Luftwaffe pilots are the ones I look up to the most.

There are so many.... all of the well-known ones of course. For the sake of this thread, I'd have to say Adolf Galland




Not so much for his victory tally, but for having a cigar lighter installed in his 109 and for using that 109 to ferry champagne to parties

Xasthur, is that photo signed to you?

Also, do you know what aircraft is in the background?  Looks like a tranport of some sort (because of the extra windows), and yet it looks like it has a sliding canopy.

[Harp00n]

Originally posted by Brooke
Xasthur, is that photo signed to you?

Also, do you know what aircraft is in the background?  Looks like a tranport of some sort (because of the extra windows), and yet it looks like it has a sliding canopy.

I´d say it´s a HE111. The gliding canopy is actually the rear-gunners position

[UdieNow]

Originally posted by Guppy35
Any excuse to post this picture.

Outside of my marriage and my kids, probably the most memorable event of my life, getting to be a part of the reunion of 41 Squadron at RAF Coltishall in 1985.

Classiest bunch of folks I've ever met and an "ace' every one.  The Spit XII pilots of 41 Squadron with some dweeb allowed in the picture.

While I fly 38s in AH, these guys are my heros.  I'll forever feel privilaged to have gotten to meet them and to know some of them well.  Sadly most are gone now.

You are one lucky man Sir.


My role model/hero: Flight Lieutenant William Joseph 'Timber' Woods DFC, RAF

[Magellan]

Originally posted by VansCrew1
whos the world war 2 ace that you like them most,and dose what he flew play a part on what you fly in Aces High?

I have a couple: Don Gentile and Robin Olds. Rather than fly their rides, I fly whatever I'm most uncomfortable in--when I get to fly that is.

[Fianna]

AH BBS: <------ owns BaDkaRmA158Th

[folkwufe]

Originally posted by Platano
Sounds like he flew in the MA

 nice one

[folkwufe]

Originally posted by Platano
Sounds like he flew in the MA

 nice one

[Xasthur]

Originally posted by Brooke
Xasthur, is that photo signed to you?

Also, do you know what aircraft is in the background?  Looks like a tranport of some sort (because of the extra windows), and yet it looks like it has a sliding canopy.

Negative, Brooke. The photo is just the result of a quick google search.

I'm also not sure what the aircraft in the background is. I'm inclined to agree Harpoon, his image looks very close. Perhaps a slightly different model He 111 to the one pictured.