GERMANY'S FIGHTER ACES

With 111 kills between them, the top three Luftwaffe pilots accounted for seven per cent of all RAF losses

OBERLEUTNANT HELMUT WICK BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 42 Wick was the highest-scoring pilot of the battle. The 25-year-old became only the fourth member of the German armed forces to be awarded the King’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaf Clusters. He was killed in combat in November 1940. MAJOR ADOLF GALLAND BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 35 Galland would go on to become the youngest general in the German military, attaining the rank of general of the fighter arm in 1941. His total number of kills for the war was 104, despite being banned from combat between December 1941 and the end of 1944 by Hitler himself. HAUPTMAN WALTER OESAU BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 34 By the time the Battle of Britain started, Oesau was already a veteran of…

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