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He jumped out a window at 8… then became WW2’s most decorated pilot
As a boy in rural Prussia, Hans Ulrich Rudel tried to “parachute” with an umbrella and broke his leg, but the same stubborn will later carried him into the Luftwaffe’s most extreme combat record.
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The Soviet ace finally found Rudel, then the Stuka turned the tables
In March 1944, Ju 87 Stukas were still hunting tanks on the Eastern Front, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel was leading veteran crews ...
Ernst Gadermann, der ihn als Sportsmann schätzte, hatte es durchgesetzt, daß Rudel an der Orel-Front, als die schon damals berühmte dritte Gruppe des Stuka-Geschwaders 2, die "III. Stuka 2", durch ...
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