which war ace has shot down the highest total number of planes
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Erich Hartmann - top ace of all time The top American ace of all time, the U.S. Ace of Aces was Richard Ira Bong. He shot down 40 Japanese planes in the Pacific. Over the years, there's been a lot of ink spilled about the relative scores of German and American aces. 27 Americans shot down over 20 enemy planes.
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Erich Hartmann - top ace of all time By Stephen Sherman, April 2000. Updated June 27, 2011. The highest scoring ace of all time was the great German Luftwaffe experte Erich Hartmann with 352 aerial kills. Flying Bf 109s (Me-109s) against the overmatched Soviet MiGs and Yaks for almost three years, he accumulated his unrivalled score.
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Korean War Aces In March of 1953, Major George Jones became the 30th American ace of the Korean war. By this time peace talks were starting, and when Ed Heller was shot down on the wrong side of the Yalu it created quite a furor. Heller, along with Fischer, Mahurin. and Bettinger became a POW; three other Korean aces (Risner, Low, & Kasler) later became POWs in Vietnam.
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The 10 Of The Biggest Military Planes Ever Built Sep 1, 2015. We’ve flipped through the pages of aviation history to bring you ten of the biggest, heaviest, weirdest and most astounding aircraft ever built. With an overall length of 84 metres and a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes, the An-225 is officially the longest and heaviest aircraft ever built.
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Flying Boat In War Thunder, there are several large flying boats that are available. These include the American PBY-5/PBY-5a Catalina, The German BV 238 (the largest plane in the game), the Russian Lend-Lease PBY-5a Catalina, the British Lend-Lease Catalina Mk. IV a, the Sunderlands Mk.
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- Since that time, he has designed, built, modified, flight tested or flown a Corbin Ace, Aviat Husky, Pitts Special aerobatic plane, a World War One Travelaire and Tiger Moth, a Robinson R22 Helicopter, Bell Jetranger Helicopter, Schwietzer 300 Helicopter, Grob 103 Glider, Nimbus 2 glider, Duchess Twin airplane, North American T6, Extra 300 aerobatic plane, and numerous Piper and Cessna aircraft, as well as a hot air balloon.
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How Many Aircraft In A Group/Squadron Ect #13332431 How Many Aircraft In A Group/Squadron Ect#13332431. Hiya. Was just watching the classic Gregory Peck film, 12 O'clock high the other night. Anyway during the course of the movie they kept talking about having 21 aircraft in the fiction 918th bomb group, that Peck commanded.
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The Tuskegee Airmen The combat record of the Tuskegee Airmen speaks for itself: 1  over 15,000 combat sorties (including 6000+ for the 99th prior to July '44) 2  111 German airplanes destroyed in the air, another 150 on the ground. 3  950 railcars, trucks, and other motor vehicles destroyed. 4  1 destroyer sunk by P-47 machine gun fire (Lt. Pierson's flight)
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- 24 Responses. 1  Sorry, but the deadliest fighter pilot ever, by far, is Heinz Schnaufer. 121kills on RAF bombers, the vast majority crewed by 7 airmen -most of them did not survive. 2  My personal favorite is by far the Red Baron: http://www.crackedhistory.com/april-20-1918-bloody-red-baron-shoots-79th-80th-airplanes/.
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- In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes.
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Erich Hartmann - top ace of all time He reached 50 by August of 1943. Within the month, he had reached 80, and was promoted to lead 9./JG52. Earlier in the war, 25 or 50 victories would have earned a German fighter pilot the Knight's Cross. By late 1943, Hartmann had to down 148 before he earned his Knight's Cross.
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- Description: The reverse features the three aircraft that are symbolic of the ones flown by the WASP trainers, fighters, and bombers during WWII; the AT-6, indicated by the number 264; the B-26 (Martin Marauder), indicated by the number 967; and the P-51. The WASP wings are depicted at the base of the design.
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- Best Fighter Aircraft of World War II Top Ten Most Powerful Overall WWR (World War Robot) Greatest Allied Nations In World War II Countries/Groups Most Likely to Start World War 3 Greatest World War 2 Rifles.
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- 1 18 August 1945: Last U.S. air combat casualty of World War II occurs during mission 230 A-8, when two Consolidated B-32 Dominators of the 386th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, launch from Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, for a photo reconnaissance run over Tokyo, Japan.
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Beechcraft Super King Air 1 May 24, 1981: A Super King Air 200 of the Ecuadorian Air Force flew into a mountain with the loss of all 9 on board including Jaime Roldos Roldós, aguilera The president Of.  ecuadorhe latter two models were originally marketed as the Super King Air family, but the Super was dropped in 1996. The Super King Air family has been in continuous production since 1974, the longest production run of any civilian turboprop aircraft in its class.
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During World War 2, could bomber planes fly at much higher elevations than fighter planes? The B-17 and B-24 had greater range at higher altitudes. Unfortunately, Axis fighter aircraft such as the M-109 and FW-110 were able to reach the same altitudes. For that matter, the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun could put a cloud of flak up that high in the sky.
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Aces Squadron Leader William Cherry Vale DFC & Bar, AFC (3 June 1914 – 29 November 1981) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who, during the Second World War, claimed 30 enemy aircraft shot down and shared in the destruction of three others, and also claiming 6 damaged and another two shared damaged.
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kamikaze As an aside, at war's end, the Japanese had, by actual count, a total of 16,397 aircraft still available for service, including 6,374 operational fighters and bombers, and if they had used only the fighters and bombers for kamikaze missions, they might have realized, additionally, 900 ships sunk or damaged and 22,000 sailors killed or injured.
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WW2 Planes: A History of World War 2 Aircraft Over 160 different types of aircraft were using during World War 2 and include the already mentioned Messerschmitt BF-109, Focke-Wulf 190 and Supermarine Spitfire. A few more notable WW2 planes include: 1  The P51 Mustang.
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Which theater of operations had more American casualties during World War II, Europe or Pacific? The Army's highest casualties were in the war against Germany. The Army Air Force had 52,000 KIA. More than 26,000 airmen in bomber crews were lost in the war against Germany. The Marines had almost 20,000 killed in the war against Japan. The largest surrender in US history (70,000 troops) was in the Philippines in 1942. Only a few thousand POWs survived the war.
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1 November 1918 Sous-Lieutenant Paul-René Fonck. (Agence Meurisse) 1 November 1918: At 2:20 p.m., Lieutenant Paul-René Fonck, Escadrille 103, Aéronautique Militaire, shot down a Luftstreitkräfte Halberstadt C, east of Vouziers, France. Gefreiter W. Schmidt of Flieger-Abteilung 297b, was killed. This was the 75th confirmed enemy aircraft that Fonck had destroyed.
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- And it was controversial because nobody had ever built an airliner this large with only two engines. The Exemplary Plane at the Heart of the MH370 Mystery Clive Irving March 26, 2014. Beck was totally unaware that earlier that morning the Soviets had shot down a Korean airliner in the Sea of Japan. The Intern Who Birthed The KAL007 Conspiracy Theories Tim Mak September 7, 2014. The situation could lead to a serious accident where an airliner might collide with a Russian bomber.
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- War Thunder already offers a highly detailed experience in military aviation and ground forces combat, giving players access to a Guinness World Record breaking number of aircraft, as well as an abundance of tanks and other combat vehicles - and the number is constantly rising.
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List of most-produced aircraft Most-produced aircraft originally designed as an airliner, but only 607 of the airliner variant were built. 15,472 military cargo variants such as C-47, R4D, & Dakota were built, including in the Soviet Union and Japan. Bell UH-1 Huey Iroquois: M: Helicopter: 16,000+ United States: 1959– present: Includes models 204, 205, 212, 214 and 412.
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- On the last X-15 flight (flight number 199) on October 3, 1967, Captain William Knight took the X-15A-2 to 102,100ft. and mach 6.70 (4,520mph). X-15A-2 was the fastest of the 3 built, and X-15A #3 was the highest flying (354,200ft.). X-15A-2 is on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.