He was a highly decorated officer and was the most successful ground-attack pilot in the history of aerial warfare. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II. Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the 79th most popular military personnel (down from 76th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Poland (down from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Military Personnel. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Ulrich Rudel has received more than 1,855,919 page views. 2016 by Hans Ulrich Rudel (Author), Douglas Bader (Foreword) 823 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 23.97 1 Used from 33.87 3 New from 23.97 Paperback 14.00 3 Used from 11.40 2 New from 14. He claimed nine aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. Hans Ulrich Rudel Stuka Pilot Hardcover 16 Dec. 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 emplacements. He returned to West Germany in 1953.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. Nike concealed his admiration for Adolf Hitler and after 1945 he fled from Germany to South America. The most highly decorated German serviceman of the war, Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. He is also credited with destroying approximately 150 artillery fire stations and sinking or seriously damaging four ships! It is assumed that he made 2,530 sorties and was shot down as many as 32 times. Hans Ulrich Rudel was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War 2. During World War II, while flying the Ju-87, its later modification Ju-87 G-2, as well as the specialized fighter-bomber variants Fw-190 A and D, he destroyed 519 enemy tanks (mainly Soviet ones). Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly. On 23-09-1941, he and another Stuka pilot sank the Soviet battleship Marat. the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. Read Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel available from Rakuten Kobo. His fellow pilots coined the phrase Hans-Ulrich Rudel, er trinkt nur Sprudel. At the beginning of 1941, he started training a Ju-87 Stukas dive bomber pilot and, as a pilot of such a machine, he started Operation Barbarossa, i.e. During the September campaign in 1939, he flew as an observation machine pilot, which he also carried out in 1940. Hans-Ulrich Rudel joined the German Air Force in 1936, at the age of 20. He was the most famous German bomber and attack aircraft pilot, considered the most effective Luftwaffe tank destroyer pilot, but also a fighter ace. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was born in 1916 and died in 1982.

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