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‘Some you win…………..’ (2)
Unlike the RAF and USAF the Luftwaffe did not rotate their aircrew and in the later stages of WW2 the Luftwaffe achieved a grossly imbalanced mix of very combat ‘savvy’ crews and ’newbies’. The image depicts a Luftwaffe pair of FW 190s bounced by prowling P51s, the battle hardened ‘experten’ immediately pulling into a hard break while the inexperienced pilot falls easy prey. The survivability of these superlative pilots is seen in the make-up of the post war Luftwaffe when Johannes Steinhoff, with 176 air combat victories, was appointed the first CinC of the post-war Luftwaffe, he was succeeded by Gunther Rall (275) and the all-time high scorer Erich Hartmann (352) retired as a Colonel in 1970. An essay in Darwinian theory!
Composite of aircraft images from various recent airshows and skyscape from my archives. The FW 190 is the A8/N variant - the N = nachbau - a ‘new’ build from a German company - perhaps not a restoration but still a piece of nostalgic magic in the skies. A companion image to ‘Butcher Bird’ posted a couple of weeks ago by my son - v8dunc.
| Title: | Bounced! |
| Username: | 
patspeirs |
| Uploaded: | 28 Feb 2010 - 10:48 AM |
| Tags: | Digital art |
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I was very fortunate to meet up with an ex 'Newbie' FW190 Pilot many years ago and his claim to fame in his words were that he had swum the channel twice. Said with a grin in his face. He had a problem that, although he was in a great fighter he lacked the experience and for some reason always had 'One of the Few' on his arse. His words. He used silk twice.
This has brought back fond memories to me of a wonderful evening's drinking with a very modest and humble gentleman.
The work on this image is again outstanding and a superb piece of work yet again.
When is the book being published
Richard
Hi Richard - your comment brought back many memories of times in the Mess at RAF Geilenkirchen when we had guests over from the then very new Luftwaffe base at Norvennich - many tales- mostly tall I suspect, huge amounts of beer, and great camarederie especially amongst those who had WW2 experience. They were great guys with no thought of being on 'one side' or the other. My thanks for your input - working with Dunc trying to get a decent set of images together.
Pat
Another superb image pat and as useual outstanding write-up..
Steve..
Another beautiful composition. Everyone, a masterpiece.
Steve.
Fantastic PF, love these aircraft pic's, so very real.
John 
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