Helmut Lipfert Book

[Tony Kambic]

Upon recommendation of kaki3152, I bought and read Helmut Lifpert's book. Very good reading and insight into the Eastern front air war.

Lipfert mentioned two things that had not occurred to me before in the airwar, nor have I seen any commentaries about such, #1, that he entered aerial combat against Bf-109s that were manned by Rumanians once they changed allegiance to the Allies, and #2, in one encounter, he started chasing a Yak which was circling, when his flight leader joked to him that the Russian pilot had already bailed out and the aircraft was pilotless.