The world’s top Air-aces happen to be from the Luftwaffe…….what’s more..........they all happen to be famed pilots of the Messerschmitt Me -109.
Herein itself lies the testimony, that the Me -109 being produced over 35,000 times is indeed the world’s top ‘Kill Scoring’ fighter-plane. Erich Hartmann(352 kills), Gerhard Barkhorn(301 kills), Gunther Rall(275 kills) and Otto Kittel(267 kills) each have more than a 1000 kills between them.
By corollary if we were to assume that if just one-fifth of the total 35,000 + Me-109s produced scored at least one kill, that would account for 7000 kills which is far more than any other P-51, Spitfire, F-15 or MiG
The Luftwaffe’s candelstine efforts with fighting off 33,198 Spitfires, 31,163 Ilyushin Il-2s, 15,586 P-51s, 15,686 P-47s, 12,975 Hawker Hurricanes, 12,275 F6Fs, Hellcats, 12,571 F4U Corsairs and a host of other allied aircraft with just a mere 33,000 Me-109s, the backbone of the Luftwaffe only proves the real mettle of the Me – 109s as the top ‘Kill Scorer’ of WW II and probably the whole aviation history of mankind.
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