Ernie P.

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More clues. Thanks; Ernie P.

Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?

Clues:

(1) A high scorer.

(2) He never lost a wingman.

(3) No enemy pilot ever put a hole in his plane.

(4) His only combat related forced landing was as a result of friendly ground fire.

Evil_Merlin

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LOL, could still be Eric Hartmann.

For the duration of the war, Hartmann was crashlanded at least 14 times. This was always due to flying into the debris from a plane he shot down or a mechanical failure. Hartmann was never shot down or forced to land due to fire from enemy aircraft

Ernie P.

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True; but I'm not sure if Hartmann's plane was ever hit by an enemy. It could be true; I just can't recall ever having read anything about it either way. But something is telling me Hartmann got hit a few times. Thanks; Ernie P.

Ernie P.

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Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?

Clues:
(1) A high scorer.

(2) He never lost a wingman.

(3) No enemy pilot ever put a hole in his plane.

(4) His only combat related forced landing was as a result of friendly ground fire.

(5) He scored victories in three different aircraft types.

Experten109/40

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only Erich Hartmann, but he got shot a few times. he was never shot down though, never lost a wingman.
he was the ONLYpilot with these acomplishments. anything else is a lie. if your an ace. you got shot. period.

Ernie P.

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Perhaps so; but I have several citations that say otherwise, including the testimony of pilot under discussion. Bear with me, and see how it plays out. There's a reason I find this pilot so interesting. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?


Clues:

(1) A high scorer.

(2) He never lost a wingman.

(3) No enemy pilot ever put a hole in his plane.

(4) His only combat related forced landing was as a result of friendly ground fire.

(5) He scored victories in three different aircraft types.

(6) He refused an officiers commission, because he was afraid it would keep him from flying.

Ernie P.

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Last clue for the evening. Thanks; Ernie P.



Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?

Clues:

(1) A high scorer.

(2) He never lost a wingman.

(3) No enemy pilot ever put a hole in his plane.

(4) His only combat related forced landing was as a result of friendly ground fire.

(5) He scored victories in three different aircraft types.

(6) He refused an officiers commission, because he was afraid it would keep him from flying.

(7) His victories were in aircraft produced by three different countries.

Evil_Merlin

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The only other one I can think of is the Finnish Ace, Eino Ilmari Juutilainen with 94 kills. More than 1/3rd of these were flying a Buffalo believe it or not. He also flew the Fokker D.XXI and the Bf 109.

He holds the distinction of the highest scoring ace of all time other than the Germans.

Ernie P.

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That's the guy! I have several citations verifying that he was never shot down (one forced landing due to "friendly" AA fire); never had a hole put in his plane by any enemy aircraft; and never lost a wingman. He claimed 126 victories, since no credit was given by the Finnish Air Force for an unwitnessed victory; and he scored many times while flying alone. His aircraft weren't equipped with cameras. A very significant pilot; and as you stated, the highest scoring non-German pilot of all time.

His victories included an He-111 bomber (being flown by the Russians) and P-51's. He flew and scored with Dutch Fokkers, American Buffalos and German Me-109's. He was very probably the highest scoring Brewster Buffalo ace. He scored victories over Russian, German and American planes.

Okay, EM; you're up. How about coming up with a good question for us? Thanks; Ernie P.



Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?

Clues:

(1) A high scorer.

(2) He never lost a wingman.

(3) No enemy pilot ever put a hole in his plane.

(4) His only combat related forced landing was as a result of friendly ground fire.

(5) He scored victories in three different aircraft types.

(6) He refused an officiers commission, because he was afraid it would keep him from flying.

(7) His victories were in aircraft produced by three different countries.

(8) He started flying a Fokker. His last flight (non-combat) was in an F-18.

(9) Aircraft flown in combat were Dutch (Fokker).

(10) Also flew and scored in an American plane (Buffalo)

(11) Also scored in a German plane (Messerschmitt)

(12) Probably the top Brewster Buffalo ace of all time.

(13) Definitely the top scoring non-German ace of all time.

(14) Two victories and a shared score in the Fokker D.XXI.

(15) 34 victories in the Buffalo.

(16) 58 victories in the Bf 109.

(17) His personal claim list numbered 126 aerial victories.

(18) After the wars, he continued as a professional pilot, flying a De Havilland Moth.

(18) Died on his 85th birthday on 21 February, 1999.

Eino Ilmari Juutilainen (21 February 1914–21 February 1999 (aged 85)) was a fighter pilot of the Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), and the top scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time. This makes him the top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force, leading all Finnish pilots in score against Soviet aircraft in World War II (1939-40 and 1941–1944), with 94 confirmed aerial combat victories in 437 sorties. According to himself he achieved a total of 126 victories. He achieved 34 of his victories while flying the Brewster Buffalo fighter.

Juutilainen is the top scoring Finnish fighter pilot. He flew Fokker D.XXI, Brewster Buffalo and Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes. He was one of the four people who twice received the highest Finnish military decoration, the Mannerheim Cross, and is considered the highest scoring non-German ace of all time. Juutilainen finished the war without a single hit to his plane from enemy fighter airplanes (once he was forced to land after a friendly anti-aircraft gun fired at his Bf 109). Like fighter aces Erich Hartmann and Saburo Sakai, Juutilainen never lost a wingman in combat.

In 1943, he was transferred to LeLv 34, which used new Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2s. With the Bf 109, he shot down a further 58 enemy planes.
He refused an officer commission, fearing it would keep him from flying.

His 94th kill was a Li-2, the Russian version of the Douglas C-47, shot down on 3 September 1944 over the Karelian Isthmus.

After the wars, he served in the air force until 1947. He worked as professional pilot until 1956, flying people in his De Havilland Moth. He flew for the last time, a Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet, in 1997.
Juutilainen died on his 85th birthday on 21 February 1999.

Juutilainen entered the Finnish military on 9 September 1932 for his compulsory military service, serving as a pilot in the Finnish Air Force starting from 1935. On 1 May 1935, Juutilainen was promoted to sergeant. He was transferred to LeLv 24 on March 3, 1939. This unit operated from Utti. In October 1939, with the situation worsening, the squadron moved to Immola, closer to the Finnish-Soviet frontier. During the Winter War (that broke on 30 November 1939) he flew the Fokker D.XXI. During that conflict he achieved two individual victories and one shared.

During the Continuation War, he served in 3/LeLv 24 flying Brewster B239s. In his BW-364 "Orange 4" (BW-364), he shot down 28 enemy planes out of his 34 Brewster victories (including three triple kills), between 9 July 1941 and 22 November 1942.

Still a sergeant, Juutilainen scored his first victory on 19 December 1939, shooting down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber and damaging two more. He became a Brewster Buffalo "ace" on 21 July 1941 when he destroyed a Polikarpov I-153 'Chaika'. He was flying one of six 3/Llv 24 Buffaloes scrambled to intercept Soviet fighters from 65th ShAP that were strafing Finnish troops near Kakisalmi. Few days later, on 1 August, Ist Lt Karhunen's seven fighters destroyed six I-16s near Rautjarvi and WO Juutilainen claimed two of them. On the morning of 6 February, while reconnoitring the Petrovkiy-Jam region with other LLv 24 pilots he intercepted seven SB bombers escorted by 12 MiG-3s.

Ernie P.

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Evil_Merlin; you are up. Thanks; Ernie P.

Evil_Merlin

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What am I and how did I change the war?

Mk23socom

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*incorrect answer removed*

Evil_Merlin

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Nope.

This device itself did not ITSELF change the war... but it was involved in landmark history none-the-less.

Mk23socom

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All Ican think of is that its something that was in the Enola Gay or Bockscar.. regarding the atom bombs that were dropped on Japan..

proptop

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I'm thinking maybe something to do with directing the flight path of glide bombs?

Ernie P.

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Something to do with dropping bombs? Maybe the device which switched control to the bombardier and allowed him to fly the lead bomber? Or which synchronized the release of bombs by all the bombers in a formation? Thanks; Ernie P.

800mZero

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Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight (SABS)

Used by the 617 bomber lancaster squadron.

It was a precision sight that allowed lancaster bombers to precision bomb u-boat bunkers, canals, and prized battleships such as the tirpitz using bunker buster tall boy bombs.

Evil_Merlin

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Yes, one of the atomic bombs was involved, but not in the way you think.

This wasn't an Allied device...

glasscock

Looks like a Geiger counter to measure radiation.

Evil_Merlin

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Nope.

The British were also involved.

As were the Germans.

As were the Americans.


This device started a chain reaction (no pun intended) which culminated in one of the Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan.

Ernie P.

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Remotely activated the triggering mechanism, and arming the device? Thanks; Ernie P.

Evil_Merlin

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Nope and nope.

This device wasn't used by the atomic bomb, but was involved in why the bomb did what it did.

Remember this device isn't American or British.

Experten109/40

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its Russian

Evil_Merlin

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Nope, its not Russian.


Its German.

SimonCraig1

Is it the X-Gerät, used by the Luftwaffe for 'precision' blind bombing?