Look at these stats !!!

[DMBEAR]

Bruv, nice mention there.


Here's a bio of another guy... http://www.luftwaffe.cz/hahn.html

[Tr1gg22]

they may have got a lot of easy kills {eastern front} But there experience was unreal... Notice hartman and the second leading ace survived..I read that hartman was put on the western front toward the end of the war..

[fudgums]

Barkhorn never scored a victory in a 190.and he spent all of 45 in a 190.also he said that the G6 was his favorite 109

[Motherland]

they may have got a lot of easy kills {eastern front} But there experience was unreal... Notice hartman and the second leading ace survived.

Rall (275) is still alive!

Barkhorn never scored a victory in a 190.and he spent all of 45 in a 190.also he said that the G6 was his favorite 109

That's weird, I have a profile of a Dora labeled as his when he was Kommandeur of JG6.

I read that hartman was put on the western front toward the end of the war..

Nope. He was supposed to be transferred to the Me 262, but declined to stay with JG52. He did encounter USAAF fighters, though. Shot down a few Mustangs.

[Yenny]

You guy forgot about the best one of them all, Hans Jochen Marseille!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Marseille

NO other pilot destroyed as many western allied aircraft as Marseille in such a short time frame.

[pipz]

You guy forgot about the best one of them all, Hans Jochen Marseille!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Marseille

NO other pilot destroyed as many western allied aircraft as Marseille in such a short time frame.

Marseille has been mentioned a few times <G>

[Yenny]

=D good!

[fudgums]

That's weird, I have a profile of a Dora labeled as his when he was Kommandeur of JG6.

Yes he was, his Dora is in the game as well, but he never landed a victory in the Dora.

IIRC, he was either transferred or was injured and came back as the Kommandeur.

[SkyRock]

it just goes to show how any statistical information can look great on paper but in reality If I was thinking great german pilots I'd be suggesting hans joachim marseille over the numerical superiors.

I guess the scoring system in AH is similiar in a funny sort of way.

so.....I'm marseille....and you would be......hartmann!      
 

[crazyivan]

so.....I'm burt....and you would be......ernie!      
 

[MjTalon]

I personally get the vibe that bruv is just out to snip the western luftwaffe pilots. Although it could be just me.

 

[crazyivan]

I personally get the vibe that bruv is just out to snip the western luftwaffe pilots. Although it could be just me.

 

No , Bruce Lee killed Chuck Norris.

[MachFly]

Hartmann's interview: http://www.acesofww2.com/germany/aces/Hartmann.htm

[RumbleB]

vulchin scorepotatos. all they care about is their K/D.

[Ruah]

There is an interview on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFdRrWBW2w)  where Günther Rall was asked why the German pilots had such high ranks (in terms of kills) and he said 1) there were more targets, 2) they had longer combat sorties, 3) they were rotated back quickly after they were injured.   There is another interview somewhere where an RAF pilot speaks about how the Germans treated the whole air-war (especially in the early war years) as a competitive sport based on individual scores whereas RAF pilots tried not to boast too much and scored as unites more. . .I'm sure this all changed once the yanks entered the war in force.