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It also helps if it doesn't read like a phonebook :)

You say that 2 rounds were used to down an aircraft but that hardly means anything is that was an one off score. Afterall Richtofen was downed by a single bullet during first war at one stage from an obscene range. That hardly indicated brilliant marksmanship but simply plain luck. Marseille average...

I'll stick with "Jochen". Marseille's recond of 17 in one day was beaten only once and that against inferior planes on Russian front.

I'd have to go for operations in Afrika. This hardly gets any attention and it could also be due to my obsession with H.J. Marseille and JG27 :)

There is also a series of 3 books by Ulrich Steinhilper going from his training days to capture and eventual escape attempts.

Thank you for the information.
Is there any way to track down more details about him? I should have his dob. and some other personal info shortly.

http://finck.orcon.net.nz/opa.jpg All i know about him so far is that his name is V. Fick, He was born in Hamburg and served in luftwaffe. Does anyone recognise the badge, it looks like wound medal in black but it's not, note the loop like curls where, if it was bww, swords would be. Any info would...