Zorachus99
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Joined: 9/15/2000 From: Palo Alto, CA Status: offline
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capitan This one I suppose: http://www.feldgrau.com/rkgosd.html Only one guy ever got it The problem however is that I only found a reliable source for the Knights Crosses. And that one guy was Hans Ulrich Rudel (who was consulted in the designing of the A-10 Warthog). He destroyed 150 anti-aircraft and anti-tank positions, 800 motor vehicles, the Soviet Battleship Marat, a Soviet Cruiser, a Soviet Destroyer, 70 Soviet landing craft, and numerous bridges and bunkers. He also heavily damaged another Soviet Battleship, the October Revolution. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions, claimed 11 air victories in his Stuka, and was shot down 30 times. I read Stuka Pilot. Great read. Anyone who delivered 1,000,000 lbs of ordinance and fired 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition is quite a footnote in the history of world war II. Some of his exploits: Most bombs dropped than any pilot of the war Most tanks destroyed 200+ than by any pilot Most missions flown during the war (only 41-45) than any pilot Late in the war his formations only consisted of a few planes, so he would be one of the few pilots in the air. He defeated a famous russian ace, and very improbably survived the war. Hitler took him aside at one point, mentioned in his memoirs, to talk about a super-bomb that would end the war before Germany's collapse. There is historical evidence of a sub-critical nuclear explosion near the Rocket base in Peenemunde in early '45.
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