Hans-Ulrich Rudel
WW2 History Podcast
English - January 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture History history ww2 uboat u-boat secret top Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Although he shot down only 9 enemy planes, Hans-Ulrich Rudel was definitely one of the greatest German combat pilots. However, he is not as widely-known as Erich Hartmann or Adolf Galland, most likely because he was not a fighter pilot but a “Stuka” dive bomber pilot.
German Field Marshall Ferdinand Schörner famously claimed that, “Rudel alone is worth an entire division!”