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Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery ...
Hans-Karl Stepp [commander of StG 2 for the final 18 days of its existence] and Hans-Ulrich Rudel tested the new types. The Experimental Tank Fighting Unit went into battle near Bryansk on 18 March 1943 and accounted for a large number of the 116 Soviet tanks destroyed. [ 147 ]
Rudel had earlier been a leading member of the German Reich Party, and was considered persona non grata by the Ministry of Defense because of his undiminished admiration of Adolf Hitler. He was invited only after an intervention by the opposition's spokesman for Defense, Manfred Wörner , and attended as the last commander of Schlachtgeschwader ...
During the attack, Oblt. Rudel crippled the soviet Battleship Marat with a 1000 kg bomb. Ju 87 of SG 2 in Russia, January 1942. In late 1942, a Panzerjäger Staffel was formed within StG 2, which enjoyed such success that, after October 1943, a similar unit was added to each Stuka Geschwader. During the spring of 1943 SG 2 worked up with ...
Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916–1982), German ground-attack pilot during World War II Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (1595–1635), Silesian nobleman, fought in the Silesian front of the Thirty Years' War Hans Ulrich Schmied or Uli Schmied (born 1947), retired German rower who specialized in the double sculls
From May 1944 until 8 February 1945, he flew with the most decorated German serviceman of the war, Hans-Ulrich Rudel. On this last mission, a 40 mm shell hit their Ju 87. Rudel was badly wounded in the right foot and crash landed inside German lines.
Just, Günther (1990), Hans Ulrich Rudel His Life Story in Words and Photgraphs. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-88740-252-6. On page 130 you see a picture of Oblt Thiede, Oblt Rudel, Hptm Dilley, Oblt Jackel and Hptm Möbus pointing to a sign of 3500. The caption reads "five Stucka officers — 3,500 missions!"
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