While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II, Erich Hartmann flew more ... that’s how close he liked to get. Why did Hartmann paint his aircraft with the image of a black tulip?

Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during ... and was credited with shooting down a total of 352 Allied aircraft: 345 Soviet and seven American while serving with the Luftwaffe.

On August 24, 1944, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann changed history. In just one day, he downed 11 Soviet planes - cementing his place as the most lethal fighter ace of all time. This video retells ...

Designed in 1935, the Storch was widely used during World War II by German military forces for reconnaissance, liaison and ...

Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over 850 times and scoring 352 victories while crashing 16 times (but not as a result of being shot down!).