Originally Posted by
Top_Gunn
OK, here's another name-the-pilot quiz. His name is far from being a household word, but he was very well known in his day.
1. The highest-scoring ace of his service, the highest-scoring ace ever born in what is now a particular country (though it was part of a different country when he was born), and possibly the highest scoring ace in one particular sort of aircraft, though there are no solid statistics about that.
Al; it almost sounds as though you are describing Richthofen, although I somehow doubt the answer is quite that simple. Richthofen was born in Prussia (now part of Poland) and is probably the highest scoring Albatros pilot (somewhere around 50; less than the normally ascribed 60, because he occasionally flew the Pfaltz). Thanks; Ernie P.