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It is worth saying/asking why Marseille was so successful..............AFAIK from books he had exceptional low speed control of the Me109 to change direction radically (which was not meant to be possible to mortals in 109's), and was an accomplished deflection shooter (which is again superhuman ability). Was there anything else?
Macandy,He's have had a short and too exciting career against capable fighters flown better pilots. His performance over the Britain wasn't stellar.
Macandy,
Part of that was due to being inexperienced. You don't start as an exceptional fighter pilot but will have a crawl, walk, run evolution.
Go wash your mouth with soap. Then read some books.with pilots of a generally very poor calibre
And those books will state that many of Marseilles' last victories were over Spitfire Mk.Vs, too...Go wash your mouth with soap. Then read some books.
His type of flying was unconventional and difficult to counter by his opponents.
In brief: his initial flying was "school" tactics he learned in flight school. As a result, his fighting abilities were lackluster.For those of us groundpounders, could you elaborate on this a little? What made his flying style so unique and difficult?
In brief: his initial flying was "school" tactics he learned in flight school. As a result, his fighting abilities were lackluster.
He ventured outside the box a few times and while he got in trouble for it, his commander took notice.
In Africa, his commander encouraged him to work on his own tactics as his "outside thinking" was actually proving very effective.
His skills with deflection shooting and method of attack were beyond ordinary, to say the least.
He was able to get his Bf109 into turns that should have been well inside of a stall and his ability to land solid hits on a turning adversary that was beyond his view (and completely beyond his gunsight range) was hard to describe.