Where is my name? i downed 5 mustangs today Erich Rudorfer werren´t able to come at this list, he was flying in Russia, and downt yaks and co. But he surely was one of the best german Top Aces!!!
Thank god there were 200 vs 1, otherwise we would all be speaking german and using ridiculous moustaches (anti-hitler joke, not a anti-german one ).
And german sounds much better than english AND WE WOULD USE THE INTELLIGENT METRIC SYSTEM INSTEAD THIS PRIMITIVE FOOT, INCH, KNOTS, TOES, FOOT OR WHATEVER ANATOMIC THINGS THEY USE
If there had been only 1 Mustang for each Messerschmidt the Germans would still have lost the war. They were certainly very good fighters (I don't mean the planes, just the German military as a whole) but not as uber as they're made out to be nowadays IMO. It kinda bugs me how so many German authors of WWII aviation books always make it seem as if the air war was a matter of gallant dashing German knights mixing it up with hordes of unskilled zombie allied pilots. Oh, we should have won the war, we were sooo much better than them. They only won because there were so many of them. bla bla bla ...
1st: in battle of britain Germans had huge advantage in numbers - very often there were 100+ escorts against single RAF flight or squadron (6-12 planes!) but they still lost the battle due to wrong tactics forced by that fat dumbass Goering (not that I regret ). AFAIR first raids of 8th AF also weren't succesful, but finally new tactics were developed and that enabled heavy buffs to fly their mission with relative safety. 2nd: Don't forget that escorts of big buff raids had to be scattered over large space while Germans could assemble huge force in one place to strike in one massive blow so sometimes odds were against American fighters.
German high tech in the end of the war was superior if compared to the designs of the other nations. But they had an incompetent leadership. So the production of brilliant designs like the Me262, Ar234, Do335 and many others were delayed by mad dog Hitler and Co. But even the few planes built and even under the fact that they were hopelessly outnumbered they had great successes. In FH you see the effect. Without the disadvantages of beeing outnumbered and with the luxury to have enough fuel, maintainance and secure flight bases most german planes are much more effective than US designs which had in real life the advantage of operating in hordes.
"They only won because there were so many of them." by Red Ant. Well...so it was, I´m sorry if that bugs you. hemuli
