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Luftwaffe Bf 109 pilot Erich Hartmann did not fire until the enemy was as close as 66 feet
Erich Hartmann would only have barely a second to get out of the way before colliding with the enemy
Erich Hartmann, a German fighter pilot...
Bf 109 Ace of the Luftwaffe Werner Mölders recounts how an Armée de l’Air D.520 Ace René Pomier Layrargues shot him down
‘I am at about 800m when suddenly there is a bang and the sparks fly across the cockpit. The throttle is shot to pieces,...
Adolf Galland, a German ace, tells the incident in which his Messerschmitt Bf 109 was seriously damaged by a Spitfire
On June 21, 1941, Galland had blasted a Spitfire out of a formation northeast of Boulogne. He watched the flaming Spit spiraling down and...
The dogfight showing the Dutch Fokker G.1 was a threat for Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Bf 109 that initially attacked him was swerving to catch up to the G.1, but 1e Lt. Gerben Sonderman employed the Fokker's superior...
The Luftwaffe Bf 109 pilot who escorted the damaged bomber over the North Sea to rescue the crew of a B-17
A Christmas miracle was developing at the time. The German ace Franz Stigler's Bf 109 was poised for an easy kill since the American...