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The life story of the most successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air combat victories - who spent ten and a half years behind Soviet barbed wire, surviving prison uprisings, hunger strikes, resistance against the NKVD and forced labor. After being released he was still mentally and physically fit enough to fly F-86 jet fighters in the post - WWII German Air Force. This photo album presents a man who wished to become a doctor, but whose fate it was to become and remain a soldier.Hartmann, Ursula is the author of 'German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann The Life Story of the World's Highest Scoring Ace' with ISBN 9780887403965 and ISBN 0887403964.
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