Lunch

Hauptmann (captain) Walter Krupinski and Major Erich Hartmann: Altogether 549 confirmed aerial victories. Krupinski shot down 197 enemy planes on 1100 missions. Hartmann, the most succesful fighter ace of all times shot down 352 enemy planes on 1425 missions. Both survived the war and served in the new-founded german Bundeswehr (Krupinski as lieutenant general and Hartmann as colonel).

Walter Krupinski &amp; Erich Hartmann

Crash-landed Messerschmitt Bf-110. Near Warsaw/Poland, 1939.