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Oberst Werner Mölders, Inspector of Fighters (this role was orignially called Inspekteur der Jagdflieger for the first three men who held the position, but was redesignated General der Jagdflieger when Mölders assumed the post), and the first man in the world to shoot down 100 aircraft. Ironically he was killed as a passenger on a Heinkel He III, on his way back to Berlin for the state funeral of Ernst Udet.
 
T he Luftwaffe's top Bomber ace, Werner Baumbach, was famous for his daring raids in his JU88. Later in the war he was grounded to help develop new aircraft and lead, Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) (in English Fight Squadron 200). This German Luftwaffe special operations unit during World War II flew test flights and had a special task to develop long range, high altitude missions for smuggling Nazi officials out of Germany. His most top secret missions, a secret he carried to the grave. Baumbach died in a plane crash, flight testing a British Lancaster bomber, in Argentina in 1953. Odd place for an ex Luftwaffe pilot to immigrate after the war, I think not.
 
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