Hello there Gentlemen,
some of you might remember the AIRFIX "World War II Aircraft of the Aces" model kit series. There was beautiful artwork on the boxes plus a portrait of the ace who flew the plane. My band colleague compiled a book about that series and endowed me with it. I tried to find out how many kills the aces have scored in the featured aircraft type, respectively. These are my results:
- 2081: J.E. Johnson scored 29,08 [27+5] of his 36,92 [34+7] kills in the Supermarine Spitfire MkIX
- 2082: R.R. Stanford Tuck scored 7 of his 27,67 [27+2] kills in the Hawker Hurricane Mk1
- 2083: Henry W. Brown scored all of his 14,2 [13+3] kills in the North American P51B Mustang
- 2084: Robert S. Johnson scored 25 of his 27 kills in the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
- 2085: Josef Priller scored 43 of his 101 kills in the Focke-Wulf Fw190A
- 2086: Adolf Galland scored 57 of his 104 kills in the Messerschmitt Bf109E
- 2087: David McCampbell scored all of his 34 [33+2] kills in the Grumman F6F Hellcat
- 2088: Thomas McGuire scored 16 of his 38 kills in the Lockheed P38H Lightning
- 2089: John C. Meyer scored 15,5 [15+1] of his 26 [25+2] kills in the North American P51D Mustang
- 2090: Ira Kepford scored all of his 16 kills in the Vought F4U Corsair
- 2091: Georgi Zakharov scored: 1-5? of the 19+4? kills in the Yakovlev Yak-3
- 2092: Erich Hartmann scored 0-2? of his 352 kills in the Messerschmitt Bf109K
- 2093: Saburo Sakai scored 56,25 [54+19] of his 58,25 [56+19] kills in the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero
- 2094: Evan Dall Mackie scored 5,5 [5+1] of his 21,5 [20+3] kills in the Hawker Tempest V
I'm still looking for info that reveals the Yak-3 score of Zakharov and the Bf109K score of Hartmann.
Michael