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Hans-Ulrich Rudel, According to wikipedia:
According to official Luftwaffe figures, Rudel flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record)[5], during which he destroyed almost 2,000 ground targets (among them 519 tanks, 70 assault craft/landing boats, 150 self-propelled guns, 4 armored trains, and 800 other vehicles; as well as 9 planes (2 Il-2's and 7 fighters). He also sank a battleship, two cruisers and a destroyer. He was shot down or forced to land 32 times (several times behind enemy lines), but always managed to escape capture despite a 100,000 ruble bounty placed on his head by Stalin himself. He was also wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory.
Say what you will, but I doubt there will be any soldiers out there to destroy what is something like the equivalent of the first gulf war single-handedly.
According to official Luftwaffe figures, Rudel flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record)[5], during which he destroyed almost 2,000 ground targets (among them 519 tanks, 70 assault craft/landing boats, 150 self-propelled guns, 4 armored trains, and 800 other vehicles; as well as 9 planes (2 Il-2's and 7 fighters). He also sank a battleship, two cruisers and a destroyer. He was shot down or forced to land 32 times (several times behind enemy lines), but always managed to escape capture despite a 100,000 ruble bounty placed on his head by Stalin himself. He was also wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory.
Say what you will, but I doubt there will be any soldiers out there to destroy what is something like the equivalent of the first gulf war single-handedly.
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Yep, Switzky thread.
who fucking cares
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You were doing good, then you had to blow it.
FOUL!
Unnecessary bashing of SE++ in a questionable thread. 10 yard penalty. Loss of down. COCKS! DICKS! LOL!
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Makes threads that are deemed "crap".
Then defends said threads with "nyah nyah nyah" argument.
However, your guy is a pretty solid badass.
So 2500+ is not out of the question.
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I don't buy any of those numbers and least of all that one. 520 tanks? That's got to be bullshit.
Someone has to fly the Y-Wing while the heroes are out blowing up Death Stars and dog fighting.
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I'm sure your input on this matter was very thought-out and intuitive. I mean, those couldn't have been conscripts shooting him down 32 times? Watching Enemy at the Gates doesn't make you a WWII historian.
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Yeah but you can't make a movie about that. Lame.
Remember, Russia was churning out cannon fodder tanks to bullrush the Germans.
Germans had superior tanks, but not enough numbers
The Americans and Brits played the middle ground with decent tanks and decent numbers
The Russians put out tin cans with pee shooters, but when there are 90 of them coming at you it's scary.
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That would be an awesome game.
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That's my grandfather.
It would be like 1942 without those pesky fighter planes to bother you.
I think it was called starfox.
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Neither does quoting Wikipedia
The Russian production of the T34 tank topped out around 1200/month. They were certainly there for him to hit.
I've only caught post-WWII episodes.
I don't know what's cooler, the fact that he was an ex-fighter pilot smuggler or that his name is one letter from coleslaw. (Bolesław)
Also, to his credit, Rudel was the highest decorated soldier of the German Army second only to that prick Goring who probably made up a medal just to be the best.
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Well, some non-wiki facts like we (grandkids) call him PapaBear, my grandmother died last month, and that he told me the story of escaping from that prison camp and it still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
His war stories are just amazing.
My grandfather flew a b-24 in the war. I have his M1 carbine that he got from a marine on Saipan in exchange for a bottle of booze.
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After the T-34 you've got the American and Russian tanks ass-backwards. Almost 50,000 shermans (including variants) were built between 1942 and 1945. That's more than the combined production of T-34s and T-34/85s.
The Sherman was a completely inferior tank to anything made in Germany post 1943.
Dude basically started a major Irish revolution, founded the Irish Confederation, designed the Irish flag, was sentenced to death but then got exiled to fucking Tazmania, escaped into America, fought in the civil war and founded the Irish Brigade and led them in battle, and then ended up becoming the first governor of Montana.
Girlfriend dumped him so he went to india and became king of afghanistan
This is the man Kipling's story the man who would be king is based on.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Would-King-Afghanistan/dp/0374529574/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-0999737-7448841?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186683704&sr=8-3
Additionally: He wondered around as a muslim holy man for years without knowing the language
when people asked him questions he just sat and thought until they went away
He raised an army that defeated a british assault
He performed a succesful cataracts surgery based on reading about it in a book
coolest motherfucker ever?
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