The Blond Knight of Germany

7th Squadron Adolf Galland aerial victories Airacobra aircraft airplane American attack Bad Wiessee battle Batz began Bimmel Blond Knight bombers bombing Bubi bunker camp cockpit Colonel commander comrades crash Diamonds Diaterka dogfight Eastern Front enemy Erich felt Erich found Erich Hartmann Erich knew experience fighter ace fighter pilot Fighter Wing fighting fire flew flown flying Führer Galland German Air Force German fighter Germany's Gruppe Gruppenkommandeur Gryazovets guards Guenther Rall guns Hermann Graf Hitler Hrabak hundred July Kammhuber Karaya Kharkov kills Kirovograd Knight's Cross Kommodore Krupinski Lagg-5 Novo-Zaporozhe Lagg-5 Ugrim Lagg-5 Varvarovka Lagg-5 Zaporozhe later leader Lieutenant looked Luftwaffe Major maneuver mission Mustangs never NKVD Oak Leaves officer Pokryshkin political Red Air Force Richthofen Rossmann Russian Front Schwarm score Sergeant Shakhty shot soldiers Soviet Stormovik Stuttgart tactics Taman tion told took train turn Usch Walter Krupinski watched wingman young pilots