Actually yes he scored two kills agains RAF aircraft.
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Hans Joachim Marseille.
Flew like the devil and killed like the devil himself.
Like most pilots are, he was bold, daring, crazy and reckless. He would release himself to attack numerically superior enemy formations, hesitation apparently was an unknown notion in Marseille´s profile.
I heard a veteran saying Hartmann was the follow up of the early gone Marseille.
The allies, in their fashion, have tried to minimize Hans as well.
Quality is quality here and there.
Kittyhawks, Hurricanes and Spitfires, all together, died when meeting Hans in the air.
Hans was one of the very few pilots of WWII who turned his fighter virtually into another extension of his body.
From some records of (IIRC) Royal Australian Air Force units I recall being cited, Marseille was such an absolute master of the air, there were cases units believing they were being attacked by superior forces
WOW......:JUST WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!In my opinion, Richard Bong was the best fighter ace America had because he scored 40 kills in the Pacific theater in a P-38 Lightning alone (Bong later lost his life in a crash of a production P-38 the same day as the A-bomb raid on Hiroshima by the B-29 Enola Gay).
Erich Hartmann, with 352 kills, was the best fighter pilot of WW2 (no Japanese or Allied fighter pilot scored as many kills as Hartmann). In my opinion, Richard Bong was the best fighter ace America had because he scored 40 kills in the Pacific theater in a P-38 Lightning alone (Bong later lost his life in a crash of a production P-38 the same day as the A-bomb raid on Hiroshima by the B-29 Enola Gay).
By what criteria does "best" get determined? Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover were great stick-and-rudder pilots, probably much better than many of the top-scoring aces.
How about the best of each nation in each theatre? That should make the discussion a bit more interesting.
For the Soviets, I vote for Pokryskin.
Absolutely agree, and were aces in their own right.By what criteria does "best" get determined? Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover were great stick-and-rudder pilots, probably much better than many of the top-scoring aces.