From mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ciss!lawday!lawday!military Mon Jun 15 18:08:21 EST 1992 >From manuelp@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (MANUELPILLAI Gerald Nishanthan) -------------------------------------------------------- LUFTWAFFE FIGHTER PILOTS WITH 150 OR MORE CONFIRMED KILLS --------------------------------------------------------- Legend: E = Eastern Front, W = Western Front, A = N. Africa, G = Greece, # = at least Scores given as - Total kills/Night kills. i.e. 302/1 = 302 total kills with 1 kill at night. Name, Rank Units Score Theatres 4engine Jet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major Erich Hartmann JG 52 352/0 352E 0 0 Major Gerhard Barkhorn JG 52,6,JV44 302/1 301E 0 ? Major Guenther Rall JG 52,11,300 275/0 3W, 272E ? 0 Oberleutnant Otto Kittel JG 54 #267/0 267E 0 0 Major Walter Nowotny JG 54, 258/0 255E, 3W #1 3 Kdo. Nowotny Major Wilhelm Batz JG 52 237/0 232E, 5W 2 0 Major Erich Rudorffer JG 2,54,7 222/0 136E, 60W, 10 12 26A Major Heinz Baer JG 51,77,1,3, 220/0 96E, 79W, #21 16 JV 44 45A Oberst Hermann Graf JG 51,52,50, 212/0 202E, 10W 10 0 11,52 Major Theo. Weissenberger JG 77,5,7 208/0 175E, 33W ? 8 Oberstleutnant Hans Philipp JG 76,54,1 206/0 177E, 29W 1 0 Oberleutnant Walter Schuck JG 5,7 206/0 198E, 8W 4 8 Major Heinrich Ehrler JG 5,7 #204/0 204E ? ? ? Oberleutnant Anton Hafner JG 51 204/0 184E, 20A 5 0 Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert JG 52,53 203/0 majority E, 2 0 # 4W Major Walter Krupinski JG 52,5,11,26, 197/0 177E, 20W 1 ? JV 44 Major Anton Hackl JG 77,11,26, 192/0 105E, 87W 32 0 300, 11 Hauptmann Joachim Brendel JG 51 189/0 189E 0 0 Hauptmann Max Stotz JG 54 189/0 173E, 16W 0 0 Hauptmann Joachim Kirschner JG 3,27 188/0 167E, 13G, #2 0 6W, 2 Malta Major Kurt Braendle JG 53,3 180/0 160E, 20W 0 0 Oberleutnant Guenther Josten JG 51 178/0 majority E 1 0 Oberst Johannes Steinhoff JG 26,52,77,7 176/0 148E, 28 W&A 4 6 JV 44 Oberleutnant Ernst-Wilhelm JG 77,27 174/0 103E, 51A, 2 0 Reinert 20W Hauptmann Guenther Schack JG 51,3 174/0 174E 0 0 Hauptmann Emil Lang JG 54,26 173/0 148E, 25W ? 0 Hauptmann Heinz Schmidt JG 52 173/0 173E 0 0 Major Horst Ademeit JG 54 166/0 165E, 1W 0 0 Oberst Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke JG 53, 3 162/0 137E, 21W, 4 0 4 Malta Hauptmann Hans-Jaochim JG 52,27 158/0 151A, 7W 0 0 Marseille Hauptmann Heinrich Sturm JG 52 157/0 157E 0 0 Oberleutnant Gerhard Thyben JG 3,54 157/0 152E, 5W ? 0 Oberleutnant Hans JG 54 152/0 152E 0 0 Beisswenger Leutnant Peter Duettmann JG 52 150/0 150E 0 0 Oberst Gordon Gollob ZG 76, JG 3,77 150/0 144E, 6W 0 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP 3 NIGHT FIGHTER ACES Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer - 121 victories (Known by the British as the "Spook of St. Trond", his Bf-110's tail is on display in the Imp. War Musuem). Oberst Helmut Lent - 102 (+8 day kills) Major Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein - 83 (Yes, a real prince). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some notes: There were a total of 22 Luftwaffe jet aces in WWII. Hauptmann Emil Lang (173 kills) downed a record 18 aircraft in one day. Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille downed 17 in one day. Major Erich Rudorffer (222 kills) downed a record 13 aircraft in one sortie. Oberleutnant Guenther Scheel had an kill-per-sortie rate greater than 1 - 71 kills in 70 sorties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of figures come from the Guinness Book of Air Facts and Feats, so they should be the definitive totals. The rest are from "Horrido". Another interesting note, that I see - about half these aces belonged to either JG 52 or JG 54! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerald M