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You choose that now, but I imagine a lot of people seeking glory would have gone for the other one, many planes.
 
Self-satisfaction? Plus the fact your whole country won't be dead, and you might even be remembered in history by name.

You also have to remember with German aces a lot flew in the Spanish Civil War against inferior pilots and planes, then flew on the Eastern front if they survived the BoB.
 
All of the top scoring Germans (except Marseille) earned their kills on the Eastern Front and the Soviet VVS was only begining to match the Western air forces at the end of the war. The scored of the Germans fighting against the Americans and the British were not nearly as high.
 
not when we had planes like the spit and stang...........

(sorry to have to pick really cliche planes (i know there should be a 'lil thing above the e but i don't knw how to get that up))
 
Early war 1939-1940 I'd say the Germans and British were matched in skill. Overall spreading out through the war, I think the Western Allies had the better quality, then the Germans, then the Russians.
If you look at the combat records, the Germans had their best scores on the East, but the Western Allies were scoring high against Germans or Japanese which aren't exactly poor pilots.
 
There's no way objective way to make a comment like that. The Germans had higher scores but we've already discussed why. By the end of the war, the average Allied pilot was better than the average German pilot because of the superior training the Allies were receiving.
 
Yes, because the Germans didn't really have the time to trains theres. In 1939-1940, I'd still say the Germans were the superior obviously only matched by the British.
 
And probably the Japanese naval pilots. Of course that's a difficult judgement to make, but the training they went through was insane.
 
It wasn't just us they surprised. The British Hurricanes and Buffallos got their own nasty shock when they tried to engage Japanese pilots early in the war.
 
Yes, but we'd already had air experience against other air forces. They were the first you met....
 
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