5/23/2023 0 Comments Stuka pilot by hans ulrich rudel![]() ![]() He was too late: “If I had succeeded in catching a hold of Hentschel I should have remained with him in the Dniester. Reaching the other side, the crew of the other Stuka collapsed beside Rudel. Their clothes and hands ripped, they caught their breath before diving into the icy, flooded river. Confronted by a steep cliff overlooking the river, the four of them slid downhill through thorny bushes. Pursued by Soviet infantry, Rudel and his companions ran four miles to the Dniester. Foreword by Douglas Bader translated by Lynton Hudson 61. Landing to rescue them, Rudel’s own plane got stuck in the mud. Hans Ulrich Rudel Stuka Pilot Paperback Novemby Hans Ulrich Rudel (Author) 1,153 ratings Hardcover 28.00 4 Used from 25.22 11 New from 28.00 Paperback from 20.90 1 Used from 20.90 There is a newer edition of this item: Stuka pilot. Rudel found the crew in a field waving from beside their downed plane. ![]() A new pilot lagged behind and, riddled by Soviet Lag-5 fighters, veered off into Soviet territory. Promoted to major on March 20, 1944, Rudel led an attack against a Dniester bridge. Rudel’s Stukas were transferred north from the southern front to aid the encircled Cherkassy pocket, then back south to north of Odessa. His clean living, exercise and tea-toddling, further ostracized him from the hard-partying pilot culture. Rudel volunteered for the new dive-bombing Stuka formations but started off as only an average pilot. During the titanic Battle of Kursk, Stuka “Gustavs” blasted tungsten-core shells through Soviet tanks, while Stuka “Doras” knocked out Soviet antiaircraft guns. The 20-year-old Silesian pastor’s son, Ulrich Rudel began his pilot training for the German Luftwaffe in 1936. ![]()
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