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I'll shut up now, but another anecdote. This is from "The German Aces Speak." The interviewee of this chapter is Dietrich Hrabak, who spent some time as leader of JG52. He had 125 victories in 1,000 missions and earned the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.
>Then we saw a German fighter smoking and catch fire. The pilot pulled up and safely ejected. His parachute opened, but then a Russian pilot flew right past us and shot that German pilot to pieces in his parachute. We were all shocked by this. Suddenly I heard Krupi say, "That bastard!" and he rolled away from me. I called for him to return to formation, but got no response. I then followed after him. Krupi closed in and blew that Russian fighter apart, and then he seemed to go mad. He threw himself into five other Russians, shooting down another. Barkhorn was right behind him, covering him, and he also shot down two Russians.
>Then I heard Hartmann call out a victory, then Rall, then Steinhoff, then Grilawski, then Rossmann, and others. Everyone was in a frenzy. In the end we had shot down about twenty enemy fighters.
