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Offline DarkglamJG52

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1035 on: December 30, 2008, 05:40:05 AM »
The german pilot who claims Saint-Exupéry are Horst Rippert (28 victorys at WWII).




More P-38 hunters...



who? what plane?

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1036 on: December 30, 2008, 07:33:37 AM »
Adolf Galland in HE112?

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1037 on: December 30, 2008, 08:52:09 AM »
Adolf Galland in HE112?

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Ok with the plane He112B2 , but  this pilot have only 1 kill (P-38F) at WW2. BTW I think what Galland score kills
with 109s and Me 262s, but not with HE112.




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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1038 on: December 30, 2008, 09:18:39 AM »
That would be Miguel Entrena Klett of the Spanish EJERCITO DEL AIRE Grupo 27 who claimed 1 P-38.
On March 3 1943 a formation of Allied planes was seen straying into Spanish airspace yet again, and Grupo 27's alert plane was scrambled with Teniente Miguel Entrena Klett at the controls. After climbing to 3500 m, he spotted the target aircraft and identified them as eleven Lockheed P-38s. He then positioned for an attack out of the sun (which was to the rear of the formation) and made a diving pass on the trail-end aircraft. Several hits were made with the 20 mm rounds (his MGs were later discovered to be unloaded), and the plane started trailing smoke and was forced down in Algeria.

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1039 on: December 30, 2008, 10:22:11 AM »
 :aok lowZX14.

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1040 on: December 30, 2008, 10:27:07 AM »
Well, well, looks like business is picking up!  :D

Give this one a try - should be quick.


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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1041 on: December 30, 2008, 10:38:26 AM »
Hmmm... let me see.... she's clearly not Amelia Earhart... so she must be the other famous one.... something to do with a Reich... or was it Reitsch? :D
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1042 on: December 30, 2008, 10:49:24 AM »
Looks like Fieseler Storch and Me 163s dweebA.

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« Reply #1043 on: December 30, 2008, 01:17:56 PM »
 :aok WTG

Hanna Reitsch



Bet there was a lot of cockpit noise in that thing.

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Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix who was once Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, and was the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. She is perhaps best remembered for her desperate flight to reach Hitler in his bunker during the Battle of Berlin at the end of World War II. Reitsch was the first female to fly a helicopter, fly a rocket plane, fly a jet fighter and fly a glider across the Alps. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after WWII, and several of her international gliding records are still standing to this day.

When asked about being ordered to leave the Fuhrerbunker on 28 April 1945 Reitsch and von Greim reportedly repeated the same answer, "It was the blackest day when we could not die at our Führer's side."

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1044 on: December 31, 2008, 02:45:35 AM »
Go Lupo!!

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1045 on: December 31, 2008, 09:16:00 AM »
Okay, another easy one.


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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1046 on: December 31, 2008, 11:05:09 AM »
Come on Old Sport that one WAS easy.

Claus von Stauffenberg, which is one I was thinking of putting up since I went to see the movie last Friday.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1047 on: December 31, 2008, 01:00:50 PM »
How's the movie?

Sorry Darkglam, didn't have time to look for a good one! :P
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1048 on: December 31, 2008, 01:51:45 PM »
Come on Old Sport that one WAS easy.

Claus von Stauffenberg, which is one I was thinking of putting up since I went to see the movie last Friday.

Yeah, I figured he deserved his due recognition, since the movie Valkyrie is just now out.

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Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Roman Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading officers of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power in World War II Germany. He was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement.

For those who might enjoy Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" here is a nicely-done clip based on scenes from "Flyboys" I believe.

Play it to the end... :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2lqlEFjrE
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #1049 on: January 01, 2009, 08:56:28 AM »
Happy N.Y.!

Here's another easy one.