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Hrabak's account of the violence over Kursk
>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 remain in formation, but got no response. 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 dived after him, covering him, and Gerd also shot down two Russians.
>Then I heard Hartmann call out a victory, then Rall, then Steinhoff, then Grilawski, then Rossmann, and then others. Seemingly everyone had a kill, but that was not on my mind. We finally broke contact. In the end, we had shot down nearly twenty enemy fighters.
