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The following table gives the list of the Luftwaffe pilots who exceeded the US top-scorer victories figure on European theatre – means 28 air victories (R.S. Johnson and F. Gabreski) , against US aircrafts only. It has to be noted that no less than 25 Lufwaffe pilots achieved to exceed this "top-US" figure – against USAAF only - , the #1 ranking even achieving twice this "top-US" figure ! (against USAAF only !). And without any mention to all others fronts and opponents they all had to fight too ! (refer to the table for the complete data about these pilots). The reasons of such successes, could be found in the bravery and sacrifice the Luftwaffe pilots had to shown in their daily fights to survive.... when they made it: nearly half of this eventhough outstanding pilots lost their life in this attrition war...
Maj. Georg-Peter Eder 55 to 57
Obstlt. Heinz "Pritzel" Bär 52+
Maj. Anton "Toni" Hackl 47
Obstlt. Kurt Bühligen 46+
Obst. Walther Dahl 41+
Oblt. Konrad "Pitt" Bauer 40+
Obstlt. Egon Mayer 40
Ofw. Heinrich Bartels 39
Hptm. Siegfried Lemke 39 ?
Maj. Werner Schroer 36
Maj. Rolf-Günther Hermichen 35
Oblt. Herbert Rollwage 33 +
Hptm. Hans Ehlers 33 to 35
Maj. Hermann Staiger 33
Oblt. Wilhelm "Willy" Kientsch 31
Lt. Anton-Rudolf Piffer 30 to 32
Oblt. Adolf "Addi" Glunz 30
Hptm. Heinz Knoke 30
Maj. Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller 29
Hptm. Josef "Sepp" Wurmheller 29
Maj. Klaus Mietusch 29
Oblt. Wilhelm Hofmann 29
Hptm. Rüdiger von Kirchmayr 28 ++
Hptm. Hugo Frey 28
Hptm. Wilhelm Steinmann 26 to 32
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/usaaf.html
lesofprimus said:In all my researching and reading, I have never been able to find enough info to settle this debate for myself...
I would assume that this is a very difficult statistic to track...
I would also assume that the All-Time American Killer was Japanese, for obvious reasons, but I may be wrong in this assumption...
Anyone got some stats sittin around that could shed some light on this???