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Uploaded by on Oct 11, 2009

In memory of Marek Edelman

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  • @the101stRANGER McCudden had over 60 kills. Idiot. 

  • how many flippin' rounds of ammo can that tri-play hold?

  • @the101stRANGER You gotta be kidding, the nine British pilots who fought him ended the war knocking down almost 200 German planes between them. Voss put up a hell of a fight but his opponents were all skilled aviators. 56 squadron which he engaged was one of the very best squadrons of any nations during WWII with some 427 claims.

    Voss is not alone, George Barker engaged in an lone epic dogfight in against 15 German planes in Oct 1918, knocking down three Germans planes.

  • @Facu4815 No, a direct quotation he made is, "Aim for the man and don’t miss him. If you are fighting a two-seater, get the observer first; until you have silenced the gun, don’t bother about the pilot."

  • a thing that richtofen showed his squadron is

    "our mission is to shoot down aeroplanes not men we are sports men..not butchers"

  • @Goodtime618 I do hope you're joking with that quote! Towards the end of the war Both sides switched to mass squadrons and formation flying with 6-40 planes sure there were cases of heroism and 1 vs 1s but I am equally sure that there a majority of cases where it was just numerical superiority.

  • @the101stRANGER To be fair given the average life expectancy of the pilot in WWI 5 kills was an ace, it took a lot of skill to to fly the aircraft. A lot of the aces who got the higher range of kills did so because they were active in the earlier stages of the war when pickings were a lot easier - especially on recon aircraft. I recommend a Good read Wings of Glory, it will make you appreciate the ace was not meerly about the number of kills.

  • @warwatcher91 ...yes officially they are. but you know how i mean it;) define "ace"... 5 kills and you are an ace. but come on, you have seen the video? what was werner voss, if these british pilots were "ture aces".

  • @the101stRANGER For fucks sake, did you not hear the narrator, he said eveyone of those british pilots were aces. Look it up on google if you don't believe.

    I'm honestly done with you, cause honestly youre thick as hell.

  • @warwatcher91 i am from germany;) during ww2 there was the wehrmacht... its "die Luftwaffe" + "die Marine" + "das Heer". today its same, but you call it "Bundeswehr" not "Wehrmacht". and i repeat...: werner voss was the only ace who fought on 23. september 1917.

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