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2,530 mission flown, 2,100 with Ju87 variants, 430 with Fw190.
Credited with the destruction of:
1 battleship (the Marat)
1 cruiser
1 (or 2) destroyers
70 landing crafts
800 vehicles of all types
150 artillery
519 tanks
4 armoured trains
9 (or 11) aircrafts
If the 800 vehicles don’t include tanks, the total of single target destroyed is:
1,557
Not counting an unspecified, but high number of bridges, bunkers and supply lines (whatever these last could be). The word “hundreds” is used.
All of the above is credited as individual kills, ships included. No shared kills are listed.
He was shot down or forced to land 30 times by anti aircraft fire (never by enemy fighters).
He rescued 6 stranded aircrew from enemy held territory.
He was wounded five times.
He lost a leg on February 8th 1,945, returned to fight on March 25th , claiming 26 more tanks before surrendering to U.S. forces on may 8th.
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