Germany had pILOTS HAD BEEN FLYING THE Spanish Civil war and were kept flying non stop through the war. nevertheless...they were like the WERCHMACHT superbly trained and skilled and the best of any nation in wwii
Anyone else blown away by the fact that the very best British ace had 40 victories, the best American 32 and the best Russian ace with 62. Meanwhile the Germans had over 100 individual aces all with over 100 victories, with the highest of being 352. The Germans were truly in a league of their own, blows me away just thinking about it.
I heard Gunther Rall explain that in an interview on TV. He said that everyone else flew a set number of missions or served a term but they flew till they got killed or the war was over. Not only does that give a big practical advantage - I feel pretty good about my 12 missions and run into someone like him with 400 plus under his belt not liking my chances so much anymore - but also it gave them a fundmentally different outlook about it all that he also felt worked in their favour. I think you really would have had to be there to really get what he meant by that part.
Absolutely. I always link the Wikipedia list 'Flying aces of ww2', when defending National Socialism. And to all of you whining politically correct prostitutes: YOU EFFING WEREN'T THERE!!!!!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces
As impressive as Hartmann's victory record is, I find even more impressive his qualities as a man and a survivor. To have gotten through almost 11 years in the gulag , suffering the loss of his baby son, whom he never saw, and his faithful, lifelong love story with his beloved wife, "Usch," who waited for him, moves me profoundly There will never be men like him again!
I am proud that Germany and Japan were allies. In Japan, there are few people who say that Hitler and Nazi Germany is bad.Japan is a friend of Germany. I and Japan protect Germany. In Japan, we do not broadcast television which calls Germany bad. Also, it is nice to see many German people coming to Japan-Tag. We Japanese people want to aim for the exchange progress between Germany and Japan by Japan-Tag.We Japanese love Germany and Germans very much!We Japanese sent 9,000 cherry blossom trees to Germany in 1990. It is said that the money of this cherry blossom trees is gathered by the donation of the Japanese and bought a cherry blossom trees . Almost all Japanese people participated in donations. The Japanese always cooperate with Germany.This cherry blossom tree is still in Berlin.We Japanese love Germany and Germans very much. Germany and Germans are great.
Well , thats a very nice comment my friend , i wish i could be a German to be loved by your country as you said , anyway , Japan has a lot of respect al over the world , too bad coordination with Germany wasnt the best in WW11 , my humble opinion is that Japan never should attack USA , instead of that , the Soviet Union , anyway ...greetings from Mexico.
Thank you very much friend. I'm from Frankfurt a.M Germany and visited Japan 3 weeks ago, I'm very interested in WW2 in general, Japanese Culture and the people and I was blown away of the sheer beauty of your country and the hospitality of the Japanese people! I hope someday I can visit Japan for a longer period of time or immigrate permanently to Japan!
@@carlosestebanlopezmaldonad1788 why would they attack the soviet when US is the one making sanctions on japanese that time like what they're doing to china today?
As impressive as the number of victories of the top German aces are, I am impressed by the sheer number of missions flown....To survive 1000+ missions astonishing....
Yes, Otto Kittel was shot down by a Sturmovik, but it should be noted that he took on, by himself, fourteen Sturmoviks at one time on his last mission.
@@BitmapAxis No private information, even though we share a last name. Ours was spelled like his when we emigrated. I have just picked things up from you tube, google, etc. He was also shot down way behind enemy lines in winter and was able to get back to his base. Interesting guy. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
@@hunterjager9538 Agreed. An average of five rounds per victory according to Adolph Galland who calculated that based on the records from Marseille's armorer that Galland himself requested. Unlike any fighter in WWII, the 109 was like a rifle in the hands of marksmen.
if we look at number of combat missions vs number of kills then Walter Nowotny and Theodore weissenberger are the deadliest, absolutely far above everyone else. I personally think that the top 5 are: Theo weissenberger, Schnaufer (night fighter) , Nowotny, Marsseile and Hartmann.
Mr Hartmann barley looks 21. Never shot down by enemy action if true is something else, many crash landings and mechanical difficulties to be expected flying and putting in that much work from the air lol, this dude lived a life few could imagine.
To have survived hundreds or even over a thousand missions, especially at the end of the war when every advantage was against them is remarkable in its own right. To have continued to be combat effective is just astonishing.
Nice. But you are only looking at air to air aces. The most decorated and most successful fighter pilot however was Hans-Ulrich Rudel. He scored 50 x air to air victories, 519 x tanks, 150 x artillery guns, 1 x battle ship, 1 x cruiser sunk, 70 x landing craft, 800 x vehicles of different types.
Most likely a lot less especially tanks since "tank hunter" aircraft would often just strafe them and them list them as destroyed. Despite the high unlikelyhood of actually hitting a penetrating shot.
@@EneTheGene Wasn't unlikely at all, since he flew a Stuka with 2x 37mm cannons that was incredibly deadly in top attacks. German kill claims were also confirmed by gun camera footage. There might be an inflation of about 15-25% in the tank kills, but then he would still be left with almost 400 tank kills lol
No he flatly refused to either train the Red Airforce pilots or help the Communist Deuthche Demokratishe Republik's Luftwaffe. That is why he was sentenced to 50 years hard labour which was finally accepted as ' miscarriage of justice' by the disintegrated Russian Judiciary. He was released in 1955 by the efforts of Konrad Adenauer along with many German POWs. He joined the West German Luftwaffe and had to leave after his open opposition in the F104G Starfighter (widow maker) debacle.
Ahhh…The Star of Africa…total rebel…real administrative problem but great pilot..developed single circle dog fighting tactics in the one versus many scenario. Once refused to fly Rommel home to Germany from Africa because he was “too busy”…now that’s gutsy
@@jeffbrooks8024 true, his accuracy in shooting was incredible. He was able to shoot down an enemy plane with a few bullets... If he survived as long as Erich Hartmann and against russian planes with russian pilots he probable would have shot down 600 planes...
I feel like Hans-Joachim Marseille deserved to be on this list for a few reasons, although he didn’t have the highest score. -He got 151 kills in about a year, which exponentially could’ve made him reach a higher count that Hartmann if he hadn’t have passed away -All of his victories were against Western pilots rather than Eastern pilots who actually had proper training and weren’t idiots. -Majority of his victories he accomplished utilizing very few shots per kill, and aiming for shots that wouldn’t kill the pilot.
Congratulations on your 100th birthday, Mr. Hugo Broch! 06.01.22 . He is the best fighter Pilot alive with 81 victorys. All the best and health! Or as we aviators say „Hals und Beinbruch " ! As far as I know, you are the last living fighter pilot with a knight's cross.
Rudel war kein Jägerpilot und um diese ging es hier. Marseille hatte zwar das Zeug, der erfolgreichste Jagdpilot aller Zeiten zu werden, weil er einfach ein kühner, sehr aggressiver Flieger war, der mit Todesverachtung flog. Leider erlag er einem Flugunfall, bevor er die 200 Luftsiege erreichte.
Thank you for video. Brave men. Pity that we had to have so much killing to see such bravery. My father-in-law saw a 109 shoot down three Soviet aircraft in one fight. In his book Galland stated, "They fought till they died." No War.
Allies : "OK lads, you had enough missions, now back in the rear to train the new pilots" Luftwaffe : "Fly till you die, if you survive, continue flying and you'll get the iron cross (or the wooden cross)" Yes, they were the best. They had to be. Flying so many times, they immensely improved their tactics and technique.
Missing from this list Werner Molders and (according to me best Luftwaffe fighter pilot )Adolf Galland. Seems To is very difficult to enlist the ten best pilots of Luftwaffe.Too much competition.
Interesting, obviously just on numbers. A real alternative list on ability could be done…like no Rudel, Rodel, Steinhoff, Galland, Marseille, Schnauffer (known to this day as the spook of St Trond, greatest night fighter pilot on any side in World War Two. The tail fin of his ME110 went at auction in 2015 for 90000 dollars after it was bought from a local who was using it to fix a hole in the roof of his farm house…lol, but I digress)
sadly mistaken with no mention of Hans Marseille with over 150 allied fighters over Egypt and Rudel with 2530 combat missions in a Stuka... I encourage all people interested in the struggles of warriors in conflicts to look into these 2 mens stories....it is well worth the time...still liked your vid but you need to include these 2 great men in this video SOMEHOW in order for the title to be plausible, thank you for making this vid though, as all feats of sacrifice for ones country is truly the greatest, no matter in the air, on land or in the sea.
Heinrich Bär: Died: 28 April 1957, Braunschweig, Germany - I belive he died in a light aircraft crash. So how could he be promoted in 1964 or serve in the GAF?
Initially... Sure. Poor pilots and outdated aircraft, but they did get better and pretty quickly. A lot of the German aces on the Eastern front racked up a lot of kills late in the war, after the planes and pilots improved. The German aces were good, really good and a match for anything the Allies had.
@@WHJeffB fair play. Germans were by far the most impressive aces in Ww2 and 1. Including in the Panzers. Sadly they couldn't stop them all. The more I learn the more I realize the good guys lost. Deutschland uber alles.
Schade , das nicht Hans Joachim Marseille erwähnt wurde 158 Abschlüsse alles West Alliierte oder Wolfgang Schnaufer ( Nachtjäger )121 West Alliierte Helmut Lent 110 Abschüsse ( Nachtjäger) alles 4 Motorigs Bomber ☝️
Good info but , by no means complete or accurate . Major Walter Nowotny was shot down over his home base returning from a mission in his me 262 . All his pilots who had already landed and the ground crews saw him come through the overcast and go straight vertical into the ground . At the time he was the squadron commander . P51 got him .
Novotny was allegedly shot down as he tried to land his crippled jet while evading being attacked by a swarm of mustangs . In a plane notorious for its lousy low speed and low altitude performance couple with its poor acceleration, meant that it was case extremely bad luck that got him .
He wasn’t actually shot down. Suffice to say, he was returning to base after engine failure in one of his engines when he was jumped by mustangs. One of the mustangs fired at him but was too far away to land any effective hits, another mustang dove on him but didn’t fire a shot at him. Why he crashed, you may ask ? It was because of the fact Nowotny tried to prevent the attack but he ended stalling his plane out losing all the power and he plummeted to his death. To understand more just read an interview by Edward “Buddy” Haydon, who was at the thick of the action at that moment.
You need to fix the info for Heinz Bar. I think he never joined the post war German Air Force and was killed in testing a lightweight aircraft, in the ‘50’s. You get that minor detail wrong...what else is incorrect?
Rudel was a fighter-bomber pilot, not a fighter pilot and this video is about fighter pilots. But I agree, Rudel was worth more than an entire division:)
kittel otto was shotted down over lettland. he was going through a long journey until he passed a german outpost. after that he made a "letter marriage". after that he was flying some victorious flights, until he died... Jagdgeschwader Grünherz!
As a 19 year-old in 1973 I was very lucky to get a summer job with McDonnell Aircraft in St Louis assigned to work on the very first blocks of the then-new F-15. At the time, McDonnell was still building new F-4 Phantoms for the German Air Force and I literally ran into General Gunther Rall. I had a stack of engineering changes to the F-15 and I was in a hurry to get to the copier room when I went through a set of swinging doors too fast and clobbered General Rall by accident. I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl into a hole and die but thankfully was forgiven. After recently retiring, this remains the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me in my career.
This is a response I left on a comment but I'll also leave it here so more will see it. "Germans flew mostly untill they died. The allies pulled the most experienced/best pilots from the lines to teach new ones. This is an important detail that many (especially wehraboos) forget. Also most aces of the luftwaffe achieved their kills against the soviets who had extremely poor training, tactics and planes at the start of the conflict allowing Germans to rack up tons of kills. To add to this we have to note that numbers of kills were greatly exaggerated on all sides of the war. " Remember to take all this into account and suddenly the numbers are no longer so wild.
Early in the war the luftwaffe was the best in the world. No one could say anything but. Sadly constant flying caught up with even the greatest .Hans marsalle was by far the best and he died because a stupid oil pump cog broke and he had to bail out .
Unknown History- #8, Heinrich Bar didn't retire from the new German Air Force in 1972. He never rejoined the service after the war and was killed while flying for a sport aviation company in a flying accident in April of 1957. Just sayin...
Rudorffer fought from the first to the last day of the war, on all fronts, with all German fighter aircraft, whether propeller or jet, against every Allied aircraft, against every numerical superiority, successfully until the last day. He even escorted aircraft that were no longer fit for combat across the Channel. None of this was easy or achieved by any Allied pilot.
There talking about fighter pilots, this will blow your mind. When the USA wanted to build a new tank busting aircraft which is the A-10 guess who they went to speak with and had critical input? Hans-Ulrich Rudel
The official view of the Federal Republic of Germany is that they are by definition criminals. To get a monument is Germany to day, one should have been shot as a deserter.
All of them proved themselves in the East, not a really good comparison, when they were up against inferior pilots and planes. Now if you were talking about Adolph Galland; there's a proper pilot, proved himself where it mattered.
@@fabiana7157 : I wasn't thinking of Allied fighter pilots at all. I was thinking of circumstances, particularly fighting in the East versus the West and when exactly the pilots were in combat. I was thinking, for instance, of Werner Molders and Hans Joachim Marseille.
Most of these victories were against young badly trained Russian pilots, Cannon fodder really, the real Aces are in my opinion from about 1940 till 1942.
Most of the German aces in the Eastern theater were still racking up significant kill numbers post 1942, some in fact, had most of their kills the last year or so of combat. The German aces were "that" good. The hundreds of sorties and several hundred hours of combat flying didn't hurt either.
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Germany had pILOTS HAD BEEN FLYING THE Spanish Civil
war and were kept flying non stop through the war. nevertheless...they were like
the WERCHMACHT superbly trained and skilled and the best of any
nation in wwii
Anyone else blown away by the fact that the very best British ace had 40 victories, the best American 32 and the best Russian ace with 62. Meanwhile the Germans had over 100 individual aces all with over 100 victories, with the highest of being 352. The Germans were truly in a league of their own, blows me away just thinking about it.
Look at the number of missions flown. American pilots didn't fly anywhere near the number the Germans and Japanese did.
You’re slightly off. Richard Bong was the highest scorer for America with 40 kills.
The Germans flew the length of the war. Americans didn't.
I heard Gunther Rall explain that in an interview on TV. He said that everyone else flew a set number of missions or served a term but they flew till they got killed or the war was over. Not only does that give a big practical advantage - I feel pretty good about my 12 missions and run into someone like him with 400 plus under his belt not liking my chances so much anymore - but also it gave them a fundmentally different outlook about it all that he also felt worked in their favour. I think you really would have had to be there to really get what he meant by that part.
Absolutely. I always link the Wikipedia list 'Flying aces of ww2', when defending National Socialism.
And to all of you whining politically correct prostitutes:
YOU EFFING WEREN'T THERE!!!!!!!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces
As impressive as Hartmann's victory record is, I find even more impressive his qualities as a man and a survivor. To have gotten through almost 11 years in the gulag , suffering the loss of his baby son, whom he never saw, and his faithful, lifelong love story with his beloved wife, "Usch," who waited for him, moves me profoundly There will never be men like him again!
I can’t believe Hans Joachim Marseille isn’t on this list. 158 victories,killed by his own plane at 22 years old. The master of the deflection shot.
My uncle (Heinz Ewald) flew with Bubi Hartmann, he was his wing man.
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Wow! Any second-hand anecdotes?
I am proud that Germany and Japan were allies.
In Japan, there are few people who say that Hitler and Nazi Germany is bad.Japan is a friend of Germany.
I and Japan protect Germany. In Japan, we do not broadcast television which calls Germany bad. Also, it is nice to see many German people coming to Japan-Tag. We Japanese people want to aim for the exchange progress between Germany and Japan by Japan-Tag.We Japanese love Germany and Germans very much!We Japanese sent 9,000 cherry blossom trees to Germany in 1990. It is said that the money of this cherry blossom trees is gathered by the donation of the Japanese and bought a cherry blossom trees . Almost all Japanese people participated in donations. The Japanese always cooperate with Germany.This cherry blossom tree is still in Berlin.We Japanese love Germany and Germans very much. Germany and Germans are great.
Well , thats a very nice comment my friend , i wish i could be a German to be loved by your country as you said , anyway , Japan has a lot of respect al over the world , too bad coordination with Germany wasnt the best in WW11 , my humble opinion is that Japan never should attack USA , instead of that , the Soviet Union , anyway ...greetings from Mexico.
Thank you very much friend. I'm from Frankfurt a.M Germany and visited Japan 3 weeks ago, I'm very interested in WW2 in general, Japanese Culture and the people and I was blown away of the sheer beauty of your country and the hospitality of the Japanese people! I hope someday I can visit Japan for a longer period of time or immigrate permanently to Japan!
Thanks a lot, loyal friend! 🇩🇪🇯🇵
hi wir lieben euch Japaner doch auch;)liebe grüsse aus Deutschland;)
@@carlosestebanlopezmaldonad1788 why would they attack the soviet when US is the one making sanctions on japanese that time like what they're doing to china today?
As impressive as the number of victories of the top German aces are, I am impressed by the sheer number of missions flown....To survive 1000+ missions astonishing....
Yes, Otto Kittel was shot down by a Sturmovik, but it should be noted that he took on, by himself, fourteen Sturmoviks at one time on his last mission.
I do not know that much about him, tbh. Do you have any info you could share?
@@BitmapAxis No private information, even though we share a last name. Ours was spelled like his when we emigrated. I have just picked things up from you tube, google, etc. He was also shot down way behind enemy lines in winter and was able to get back to his base. Interesting guy. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Are you a relative of Otto Kittel?
@@pedroarthur919 The name was the same when the family came from Germany, but probably not related. A pretty common name.
Germans are amazing people, it’s also that inherent discipline that makes them so successful, never mind there skills.
Hans Joachim marseille was the most skilled of alll of them!
It's crazy he is not on the list! Erich Hartmann said he was the best!
@@hunterjager9538 Agreed. An average of five rounds per victory according to Adolph Galland who calculated that based on the records from Marseille's armorer that Galland himself requested. Unlike any fighter in WWII, the 109 was like a rifle in the hands of marksmen.
if we look at number of combat missions vs number of kills then Walter Nowotny and Theodore weissenberger are the deadliest, absolutely far above everyone else. I personally think that the top 5 are: Theo weissenberger, Schnaufer (night fighter) , Nowotny, Marsseile and Hartmann.
Adolf Galland, also German ace said he was best.
Maybe he was flying a stucka?
This will never be repeated. Amazing history. Von Kleiga
The most successful fighter pilot of all time...that is a figure that will never be matched till the end of the world.
Mr Hartmann barley looks 21. Never shot down by enemy action if true is something else, many crash landings and mechanical difficulties to be expected flying and putting in that much work from the air lol, this dude lived a life few could imagine.
very well said:)
To have survived hundreds or even over a thousand missions, especially at the end of the war when every advantage was against them is remarkable in its own right. To have continued to be combat effective is just astonishing.
Nice. But you are only looking at air to air aces. The most decorated and most successful fighter pilot however was Hans-Ulrich Rudel. He scored 50 x air to air victories, 519 x tanks, 150 x artillery guns, 1 x battle ship, 1 x cruiser sunk, 70 x landing craft, 800 x vehicles of different types.
Most likely a lot less especially tanks since "tank hunter" aircraft would often just strafe them and them list them as destroyed. Despite the high unlikelyhood of actually hitting a penetrating shot.
@@EneTheGene Wasn't unlikely at all, since he flew a Stuka with 2x 37mm cannons that was incredibly deadly in top attacks. German kill claims were also confirmed by gun camera footage. There might be an inflation of about 15-25% in the tank kills, but then he would still be left with almost 400 tank kills lol
The best german ace was Hans-Joachim Marseille. And Erich Hartmann helped to build up the new democratic German Luftwaffe after WW2
No he flatly refused to either train the Red Airforce pilots or help the Communist Deuthche Demokratishe Republik's Luftwaffe. That is why he was sentenced to 50 years hard labour which was finally accepted as ' miscarriage of justice' by the disintegrated Russian Judiciary. He was released in 1955 by the efforts of Konrad Adenauer along with many German POWs. He joined the West German Luftwaffe and had to leave after his open opposition in the F104G Starfighter (widow maker) debacle.
Ahhh…The Star of Africa…total rebel…real administrative problem but great pilot..developed single circle dog fighting tactics in the one versus many scenario. Once refused to fly Rommel home to Germany from Africa because he was “too busy”…now that’s gutsy
@@jeffbrooks8024
true, his accuracy in shooting was incredible. He was able to shoot down an enemy plane with a few bullets... If he survived as long as Erich Hartmann and against russian planes with russian pilots he probable would have shot down 600 planes...
how could you forget Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the best stuka-pilot?
weisthor0815 he flew stukas (dive combat bombers) not fighter planes ✌🏻 but you’re correct, he’s the best dive bomber pilot of them all.
Stuka was not a fighter was it? You cannot put fighter pilots and dive bomber in the same category...
@@BitmapAxis yes you are right but he also shot down or made a top soviet ace crash. The soviet was a hero of the soviet union winner.
@@mimiehamat1394 and he sunk battleship as well:) I'm planning to do next video about him:)
Rudel was incredible
I feel like Hans-Joachim Marseille deserved to be on this list for a few reasons, although he didn’t have the highest score.
-He got 151 kills in about a year, which exponentially could’ve made him reach a higher count that Hartmann if he hadn’t have passed away
-All of his victories were against Western pilots rather than Eastern pilots who actually had proper training and weren’t idiots.
-Majority of his victories he accomplished utilizing very few shots per kill, and aiming for shots that wouldn’t kill the pilot.
What incredible great men!
Congratulations on your 100th birthday, Mr. Hugo Broch! 06.01.22 . He is the best fighter Pilot alive with 81 victorys. All the best and health! Or as we aviators say „Hals und Beinbruch " ! As far as I know, you are the last living fighter pilot with a knight's cross.
Gerhard Barkhorn (#2) was close friend and best man at Erich Hartmann's (#1 ) wedding. Thanks for posting!
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aber wo ist Hans Joachim Marseille und Hans-Ulrich Rudel?
Diese Ausnahnepiloten sollten auf keinen Fall fehlen
Rudel war kein Jägerpilot und um diese ging es hier. Marseille hatte zwar das Zeug, der erfolgreichste Jagdpilot aller Zeiten zu werden, weil er einfach ein kühner, sehr aggressiver Flieger war, der mit Todesverachtung flog. Leider erlag er einem Flugunfall, bevor er die 200 Luftsiege erreichte.
Hans Joachim Marseille and Adolf galland are in the top 5 with HJM as number 1
Hartmann is only highest scoring fighter pilot, NOT highest scoring Luftwaffe ace.
Thank you for video. Brave men. Pity that we had to have so much killing to see such bravery. My father-in-law saw a 109 shoot down three Soviet aircraft in one fight. In his book Galland stated, "They fought till they died." No War.
I believe it was Herr Hartmann who described dogfighting the poorly trained Soviet pilots as "infanticide."
In this it says Heinrich Bar retired in 1972. But if you look him up it says he died in 1957.
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feel like the star of Africa should have been on this list, he didnt have the most kills but he was by far the coolest
Wow, some of these were very good at their job!
Excellent video!!!
"none" was such a common nickname back then
All I have to say is the GOAT is 352!
Not only never shot down, and never wounded - Hartmann never lost a wingman.
Allies : "OK lads, you had enough missions, now back in the rear to train the new pilots"
Luftwaffe : "Fly till you die, if you survive, continue flying and you'll get the iron cross (or the wooden cross)"
Yes, they were the best. They had to be. Flying so many times, they immensely improved their tactics and technique.
Missing from this list Werner Molders and (according to me best Luftwaffe fighter pilot )Adolf Galland. Seems To is very difficult to enlist the ten best pilots of Luftwaffe.Too much competition.
One short afterthought , the luftwaffe did not refer to them as aces , they were called experts instead .
Interesting, obviously just on numbers. A real alternative list on ability could be done…like no Rudel, Rodel, Steinhoff, Galland, Marseille, Schnauffer (known to this day as the spook of St Trond, greatest night fighter pilot on any side in World War Two. The tail fin of his ME110 went at auction in 2015 for 90000 dollars after it was bought from a local who was using it to fix a hole in the roof of his farm house…lol, but I digress)
I think, the most famous fighter-pilot in Germany has ever been Manfred von Richthofen, WW I. Movies of him were also made.....
sadly mistaken with no mention of Hans Marseille with over 150 allied fighters over Egypt and Rudel with 2530 combat missions in a Stuka... I encourage all people interested in the struggles of warriors in conflicts to look into these 2 mens stories....it is well worth the time...still liked your vid but you need to include these 2 great men in this video SOMEHOW in order for the title to be plausible, thank you for making this vid though, as all feats of sacrifice for ones country is truly the greatest, no matter in the air, on land or in the sea.
@Mark Bowles
you have got it. Marseille is the best.
Heinrich Bär: Died: 28 April 1957, Braunschweig, Germany - I belive he died in a light aircraft crash. So how could he be promoted in 1964 or serve in the GAF?
Agreed, You are right. I have made a mistake. I'm not sure how, though:/ Cannot remember sources I used to make this video... :(
Np Sir, it happens to the best of us.
Badassess.
German Aces Pilots should have at least 1 big hollywood movie about them.
Hollywood xd
Not to detract from the skill of these pilots, but their Soviet adversaries were just no match for them.
yeah buckets of bolts. if the spitfires or U.S. craft were used the stats would be different.
Initially... Sure. Poor pilots and outdated aircraft, but they did get better and pretty quickly. A lot of the German aces on the Eastern front racked up a lot of kills late in the war, after the planes and pilots improved. The German aces were good, really good and a match for anything the Allies had.
@@WHJeffB fair play. Germans were by far the most impressive aces in Ww2 and 1. Including in the Panzers. Sadly they couldn't stop them all. The more I learn the more I realize the good guys lost. Deutschland uber alles.
Fred Amerson Joseph Müncheberg found the eastern front to be “child’s play” when he was transferred to there from the western front.
@@Quantum148 dont think so
Hans Joachim Marseille, the best.
Schade , das nicht Hans Joachim Marseille erwähnt wurde 158 Abschlüsse alles West Alliierte oder Wolfgang Schnaufer ( Nachtjäger )121 West Alliierte Helmut Lent 110 Abschüsse ( Nachtjäger) alles 4 Motorigs Bomber ☝️
How about the top-10 Axis Night-fighters?
Only Gunther Rall could be pilot from a BF 109 to 104 Starfighter...
Good info but , by no means complete or accurate . Major Walter Nowotny was shot down over his home base returning from a mission in his me 262 . All his pilots who had already landed and the ground crews saw him come through the overcast and go straight vertical into the ground . At the time he was the squadron commander . P51 got him .
Novotny was allegedly shot down as he tried to land his crippled jet while evading being attacked by a swarm of mustangs . In a plane notorious for its lousy low speed and low altitude performance couple with its poor acceleration, meant that it was case extremely bad luck that got him .
He wasn’t actually shot down. Suffice to say, he was returning to base after engine failure in one of his engines when he was jumped by mustangs. One of the mustangs fired at him but was too far away to land any effective hits, another mustang dove on him but didn’t fire a shot at him. Why he crashed, you may ask ? It was because of the fact Nowotny tried to prevent the attack but he ended stalling his plane out losing all the power and he plummeted to his death. To understand more just read an interview by Edward “Buddy” Haydon, who was at the thick of the action at that moment.
You need to fix the info for Heinz Bar.
I think he never joined the post war German Air Force and was killed in testing a lightweight aircraft, in the ‘50’s.
You get that minor detail wrong...what else is incorrect?
Highest scoring Luftwaffe ace was Hans Ulrich Rudel with a big distance.
Rudel was a fighter-bomber pilot, not a fighter pilot and this video is about fighter pilots. But I agree, Rudel was worth more than an entire division:)
Shame not a single mention of Marseille. His 150+ air kills in Africa again go unnoticed.
kittel otto was shotted down over lettland. he was going through a long journey until he passed a german outpost.
after that he made a "letter marriage". after that he was flying some victorious flights, until he died... Jagdgeschwader Grünherz!
I’m still discovering stories like this one!👍
Great! his relatives are still living in my hometown.
@@dawaidla9086 I am related to a family named Kittrell in USA. Are there people in Germany with that name?
@@dawaidla9086Please tell me your city name.
As a 19 year-old in 1973 I was very lucky to get a summer job with McDonnell Aircraft in St Louis assigned to work on the very first blocks of the then-new F-15. At the time, McDonnell was still building new F-4 Phantoms for the German Air Force and I literally ran into General Gunther Rall. I had a stack of engineering changes to the F-15 and I was in a hurry to get to the copier room when I went through a set of swinging doors too fast and clobbered General Rall by accident. I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl into a hole and die but thankfully was forgiven. After recently retiring, this remains the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me in my career.
This is a response I left on a comment but I'll also leave it here so more will see it.
"Germans flew mostly untill they died. The allies pulled the most experienced/best pilots from the lines to teach new ones. This is an important detail that many (especially wehraboos) forget. Also most aces of the luftwaffe achieved their kills against the soviets who had extremely poor training, tactics and planes at the start of the conflict allowing Germans to rack up tons of kills. To add to this we have to note that numbers of kills were greatly exaggerated on all sides of the war. "
Remember to take all this into account and suddenly the numbers are no longer so wild.
At Oberst Heinrich Bar,the biographie is wrong.In 1957,as a civilian pilot fall down with a light airplane.
They where just that good
Early in the war the luftwaffe was the best in the world. No one could say anything but. Sadly constant flying caught up with even the greatest .Hans marsalle was by far the best and he died because a stupid oil pump cog broke and he had to bail out .
whats the song used for this video called
Redo the video and put Hans Joachim Marseille on the list 🥺
How could you leave out Rudel? 2000 sorties! 500 tanks destroyed
I created separate video about Rudel and his achievements. Maybe the title is not the most fortunate one - all of them were fighter pilots
You missed the best one!
Hand Joachim Marseille
The title is absolute wrong.... Top scoring aces not the best ones. If you're about the best ones then in the top 10 defo has to be H.J.Marseille.
Heinrich Bar did NOT retire in 1972, he was killed in a light plane crash in 1957.
The Best Top 10 Aces Of The World.
Unknown History- #8, Heinrich Bar didn't retire from the new German Air Force in 1972. He never rejoined the service after the war and was killed while flying for a sport aviation company in a flying accident in April of 1957. Just sayin...
Hans ulrich rudell?
Stuka pilot....dive bomber and fighter...NOT the same.
@@samsignorelli danke
Rudel??
Rudel was not a fighter pilot
The heroes of humanity.
And hens ulrish rudal ???????
With ju87 and only one leg
2550 mission flown
2000 targets:
9 aircraft
519 MBT
1 cuirassé
2 crusader
1 destroyer
never such army is born nor it will be born in future
Song?
It was written for me, you won’t find it anywhere
I think Hans-Joachim Marseille deserves special mention... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Marseille
Rudorffer fought from the first to the last day of the war, on all fronts, with all German fighter aircraft, whether propeller or jet, against every Allied aircraft, against every numerical superiority, successfully until the last day. He even escorted aircraft that were no longer fit for combat across the Channel. None of this was easy or achieved by any Allied pilot.
Where is Hans Ulrich Rudel??
There talking about fighter pilots, this will blow your mind. When the USA wanted to build a new tank busting aircraft which is the A-10 guess who they went to speak with and had critical input?
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
103 shot down at least 100/ total 15,400 Siegen// 360 -- 40 to 99 kills/ total 21000 Siegen// 500 hat 20-39 Siegen/ 15000 Siegen Total.
The supposedly big winners Americans and English were a joke compared to Germany.
Deutschland ist nicht zu stoppen!
MrFrank8964 ....war nicht zu toppen. Deutschland gibt's heute nur nach dem Namen nach.
Willy Mexico Leider wahr!
I see some places from Latvia.
Ases Alemães:os únicos em todo o Mundo que podem ostentar esse título...os demais, bons e esforçados pilotos...
Jochen... Where is Maru-chan?
Why are you people even bringing up this old stuff??
Addirittura the star of Africa, please.
And all of them were German!
I know someone related to Heinrich Ehrler
Where the hell is Marseille
Bel video, ma non si potrebbe tradurre in italiano? Grazie.
Heinz Bär dies 1957 by a Planecrash.
I miss the Adler von Lille ww1
Max Immelmann , Germany’s First fighter ace and one of their shining lights of the skies during the war alongside Boelcke and Richthofen .
Have this great hero's are preserved in their cemetery and remembered by the German's or lost, can anyone from Germany tell me.
The official view of the Federal Republic of Germany is that they are by definition criminals. To get a monument is Germany to day, one should have been shot as a deserter.
They where eagles lead by fat turkey
very true!
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All of them proved themselves in the East, not a really good comparison, when they were up against inferior pilots and planes. Now if you were talking about Adolph Galland; there's a proper pilot, proved himself where it mattered.
Wrong!! Hans Johachim Marseilles " the star of Afrika" had 152 Spitfires and Hurricane shot down
They were still incredibly skilled, you envious, petty 🐕
its a big shame that on this list arent Hans Joachim Marseille who was the best fighter pilot ever !! and Adolf Galland ://
Highest scoring, not necessarily the best.
Yes they were, you're just being petty because the allied pilots weren't like them.
@@fabiana7157 : I wasn't thinking of Allied fighter pilots at all. I was thinking of circumstances, particularly fighting in the East versus the West and when exactly the pilots were in combat. I was thinking, for instance, of Werner Molders and Hans Joachim Marseille.
Most of these victories were against young badly trained Russian pilots, Cannon fodder really, the real Aces are in my opinion from about 1940 till 1942.
Most of the German aces in the Eastern theater were still racking up significant kill numbers post 1942, some in fact, had most of their kills the last year or so of combat. The German aces were "that" good. The hundreds of sorties and several hundred hours of combat flying didn't hurt either.
Meee ??
rY 9
German planes were better just as their pilots, but they never had the numbers. They did their best, but it wasn't enough.
laugh
Horrido!