stuka ace Hans Ulrich Rudel with a paper cut out of a T-34 showing the angle on how to destroy the T-34 engine compartment 

Rudel T-34

Werner Schröer, Luftwaffe’s ace which ended the war credited with 114 victories included 26 four-engines bombers, claimed in 197 combat missions, view through the armored windshield of his Bf 109. The photo was taken on February 1943 when the Schröer’s unit, II./JG27 (II Gruppe/Jagdgeschwader 27), were deployed at Maritsa airfield, Rhode. Schröer, newly promoted Hauptmann in the same month, on 22 April 1943 was made Gruppenkommandeur of II./JG 27. Victor Sierra

An ace’s face

Close-up of the running Piaggio P.XIX RC45 1,160 HP engine of one of the Reggiane Re.2002s employed in 1944/45 by Luftwaffe’s in France in the anti-partisan role. After the Italy’s surrender on September 1943, the German Air Force seized some 40 Regia Aeronautica’s Re.2002 (nicknamed in Italy “Ariete”. Ram) while the Reichluftfahrtministerium (RLM) demanded to Officine Reggiane (Caproni Group) the completion of two former Italian batches, total 83 aircraft, and the preparation of a production of 500 airplanes. But the Reggiane’s factory, at Reggio Emilia, was destroyed by allied air raids on 7 and 8 January 1944 and the aircraft really manufactured was only 14 a part other already existing airframes completed according the Luftwaffe’s requirements. In all, during 1944, the Reggiane produced for RLM 60 news Re.2002 Series 2, but only 25 was really delivered to Luftwaffe. Victor Sierra