Honestly, WW2 aces after the war look very cool.
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Whoever it may be, there is no such thing as innocence in war, some here have a Hollywood image of the honourable knight who fought in a world war. Just stick to the topic and leave your fantasies out of it.
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If we’re looking for Germans:
Franz Stigler
Oberleutnant Ludwig Franz Stigler (21 August 1915 – 22 March 2008) was a German fighter pilot and fighter ace in World War II.
He is best known for his role in a December 1943 incident in which he spared the crew of a severely damaged B-17 bomber. He escorted the plane to safety over enemy lines. The story was kept secret for many years, but in 1990 the two pilots finally reunited and were close friends until their deaths in 2008. Stigler died in Canada, where he moved after the war.
Stigler wa...
Helmut Harff
Helmut Harff (* 5. Juni 1939 in Mönchengladbach; † 8. September 2018) war ein deutscher Brigadegeneral der Bundeswehr.
Im Alter von neunzehn Jahren wurde Harff Offizieranwärter im Fallschirmjägerbataillon 262. Er absolvierte den Einzelkämpferlehrgang, die Fallschirmsprungausbildung und studierte im Rahmen der Offizierausbildung Betriebswirtschaft. Er besuchte das NATO Defence College der NATO in Rom. Harff war unter anderem Lehrgangsleiter an der Hamburger Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr.
1990 ...
Erwin von Witzleben
Second World War
Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime had the plot succeeded.
Erwin von Witzleben was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in the Prussian province of Silesia, the son of Georg von Witzl...
Erich Hoepner
World War II
Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading his troops during the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France.
Hoepner commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. During the invasion of Poland, he resisted m...
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