The Strategy of a Luftwaffe Ace
'Black Tulip' - a recent biography of Erich Hartmann "the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare"
On 29 October 1943, Erich Hartmann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for destroying 148 enemy aircraft - yet he was only halfway through his overall ‘score’. His final victory came on the last day of the war when, just hours before the German surrender, a Soviet fighter became his 352nd victim.
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