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Re: Erich Hartmann: 352 victories or... 80?
Jens:
I seriously doubt Hartmann destroyed a bread plant or killed any civilians; given an Me 109 is a very short ranged fighter I doubt he could have gone too far behind the lines & I don't think a bread plant would be too close to the front---as I recall from the Hartmann bio, the charges stated that when he fired at Soviet aricraft, not all of the ammo he fired struck an aircraft; the ammo fell to the ground after they 'ran out of ballistic momentum' & killed civilians who just happened to be on the ground where the bullets/shells hit;
NickM
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