Ace of Aces: Erich Hartmann the Blond Knight of Germany
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2020, 8, 383-406 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jss ISSN Online: 2327-5960 ISSN Print: 2327-5952 Ace of Aces: Erich Hartmann the Blond Knight of Germany Dr. C. Hind, Prof. A. Nicolaides Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, Midrand, South Africa How to cite this paper: Hind, C., & Nico- Abstract laides, A. (2020). Ace of Aces: Erich Hart- mann the Blond Knight of Germany. Open History has seen numerous great aviators and specifically ace fighter pilots. Journal of Social Sciences, 8, 383-406. None of them, however, comes close to the exceptionally gifted Erich Hart- https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2020.83034 mann who served mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. He was Received: October 29, 2019 the top scoring fighter pilot of all the fighters in World War 2. He flew a stag- Accepted: March 24, 2020 gering 825 missions in recording 352 victories (See Annexure 1). All the vic- Published: March 27, 2020 tories were recorded on the Eastern Front. “The Black Devil” as Hartmann was known, holds a record that has never been broken, and owing to the na- Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. ture of modern aerial warfare it is unlikely to ever be broken. During the last This work is licensed under the Creative years of the war, his repute had grown so colossal that when many Soviet pi- Commons Attribution-NonCommercial lots observed his Messerschmitt Bf 109 approaching, they would bolt instead International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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