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Was the ace of aces for jet-vs-jet combat. [28] [better source needed] Muhammad Mahmood Alam: Pakistan: Indo-Pakistani War of 1965: 1953–1982 5 F-86 Sabre: Muhammad Mahmood Alam is credited with having shot down five Indian aircraft in less than a minute, the last four within 30 seconds. [29] Giora Even Epstein: Israel: Six-Day War: 1956 ...
Luftwaffe multirole bomber, heavy fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. Hawker Hurricane: M: Fighter 14,487 United Kingdom: 1937: 1944 Including production in Canada and a few built in Belgium and Yugoslavia. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21: M: Jet fighter 13,996 Soviet Union: 1959: 1985 Most-produced supersonic aircraft.
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
Erich Hartmann, with 352 official kills the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time. In World War II many air forces adopted the British practice of crediting fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions or decimal scores, such as 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 26.83. Some U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground as ...
As Commander, Carrier Air Group (CAG) 15, he was Commander of the Air Group (fighters, bombers, and torpedo bombers) when the group was embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Essex. From April to November 1944, his group saw six months of combat and participated in two major air-sea battles, the First and Second Battles of the Philippine Sea.
German Jet Aces of World War 2. Aircraft of the Aces. Vol. 17. London; New York: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-634-7. Obermaier, Ernst (1989). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe Jagdflieger 1939 – 1945 [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the Luftwaffe Fighter Force 1939 – 1945] (in German). Mainz, Germany: Verlag Dieter Hoffmann.
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In March 1945, Hartmann, his score now standing at 337 aerial victories, was asked a second time by General Adolf Galland to join the Me 262 units forming to fly the new jet fighter. [90] Hartmann attended the jet conversion program led by Heinrich Bär. Galland also intended Hartmann to fly with Jagdverband 44. Hartmann declined the offer ...