Quick FactsNationalityFinnish 🇫🇮Aerial Victories94 (highest non-German ace of WWII)Aircraft FlownBrewster Buffalo, Bf 109GWarsWinter War, Continuation WarBorn / Died21 Feb 1914 – 21 Feb 1999 (age 85 — died on his birthday)UnitLLv 24, HLeLv 34 Eino Ilmari Juutilainen —...
For 462 days, Western aircraft landed at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport every three minutes around the clock. They brought coal. They brought flour. They brought powdered milk and dried eggs and medicines. At the peak of the operation, a fully loaded transport...
He painted his aeroplane red so the enemy would know exactly who was coming. By the time Manfred von Richthofen fell from the sky on 21 April 1918, he had destroyed 80 enemy aircraft — a record that stood as the highest confirmed tally of any fighter pilot in the...
Quick FactsNationalityBritish 🇬🇧Aerial Victories38 (highest confirmed British ace of WWII)Aircraft FlownSpitfire Mk.II through Mk.XIVWarsWorld War IIBorn / Died9 Mar 1915 – 30 Jan 2001 (age 85)Unit616 Sqn RAF, No. 144 Wing RCAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX in the Air...
Quick FactsNationalitySoviet 🇷🇺Aerial Victories12 (highest female ace of all time)Aircraft FlownYak-1, Yak-1BWarsWorld War IIBorn / Died18 Aug 1921 – 1 Aug 1943 (age 21)Unit586th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Order of the Red Banner...
Quick FactsNationalitySoviet 🇷🇺Aerial Victories59 (officially credited)Aircraft FlownMiG-3, Yak-1, P-39 AiracobraWarsWorld War II (Eastern Front)Born / Died6 Mar 1913 – 13 Nov 1985 (age 72)Unit16th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Stamp of Russia 2013 No 1675...
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