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Originally Posted by tabs
Come to think of it the Greastest Fighter Pilot of WW1 wasn't Richtoffen..but the Frenchy Rene Fonck...why he downed 75 Germans officially which was right behin von richtoffen at 80, but that alone didn't make him the greatest...what made him the best was the fact that he started flying in 1914 and survived the war when the average life expectancy for a new pilot on the Western Front was 2 weeks..couple that with the fact that he rarily came back with a bullet hole in his plane. Truly amazing..
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Those WWI guys were pikers! Hartman, JG 52, 352 confirmed kills. Only met the Americans once at Ploesti, shot down five p51s in that day.
So what did Harman and Francis Garbreski (US P47 Ace) have in common??