Altenberg - 1943

[Omag 2.0]

Nothing fancy, just 2 mildly edited shots...

Messerschmitt doing it's thing, look menacing...






Cheers!


Kris

[ATI_7500]

Very good edits there,Kris!
And now one with a 109 shooting down a Spit.

[Omag 2.0]

Hmmm... better switch to IL2 then...  ;)

[BananaBob]

Cool Black and White shots Omag!

[Woodlouse2002]

And now one with a 109 shooting down a Spit.

Nah, we want to keep this all historically accurate.

[ozzy72]

Very nice Kris

[ATI_7500]

Nah, we want to keep this all historically accurate.

Yep. So we want to see a 109E shooting down about 80 Spits and a Spit shooting down about 20 109s.

[Theis]

Who won the bloddy war?

[ATI_7500]

Who won the bloddy war?

The allies. But we've had far higher scoring aces,like Marseille and Hartmann.
We were just far too few...

[Omag 2.0]

Who won the bloddy war?

I so hope this is meant as a joke... Otherwise back to the schoolbooks youngman...  ;D

[Dr._Who]

The allies. But we've had far higher scoring aces,like Marseille and Hartmann.
We were just far too few...

Dont forget Adolf Galland!  ;)

[ATI_7500]

Dont forget Adolf Galland!  ;)

...and hundreds of others who had more kills than the best alliied ace (a Russian,AFAIK).

[ChuckMajik]

But weren't most Luftwaffe kills scored against inferior russian craft?

[ATI_7500]

But weren't most Luftwaffe kills scored against inferior russian craft?

Depnds. I wouldn't consider russian craft inferior. But Luftwaffe pilots were on duty 24/7 and for the whole rest of the war,while allied (western) pilots were retired after 25 missions or sent back home.
Methinks the main cause for the high scores of the Luftwaffe were the inferiorly trained russian pilots.

[ChuckMajik]

Depnds. I wouldn't consider russian craft inferior. But Luftwaffe pilots were on duty 24/7 and for the whole rest of the war,while allied (western) pilots were retired after 25 missions or sent back home.
Methinks the main cause for the high scores of the Luftwaffe were the inferiorly trained russian pilots.

Good thing I phrased it as a question, and not a statement.

I wasn't implying all russian planes were inferior,
just the ones the Germans would have faced in the early stages of their operation.

As for that twenty-five mission then get sent back doohickey, I didn't know that.
So I'm going to concur with your notion.