Luftwaffe fighter pilot Günther Rall dies aged 91 - Germany

Generalleutnant Günther Rall, who has died aged 91, was one of the few outstanding German fighter leaders to survive the Second World War; by the end of the conflict he was the third-highest-scoring fighter ace of all time with 275 aerial victories ...
... he was one of the founding fathers of the modern German Air Force and rose to become its chief ...
... while Rall was always a devoted soldier in the service of his country, when the facts of the Holocaust were presented to him he came to look on them as "the greatest madness of this insane war" ...
... Rall asked Hitler: "Führer, how long will this war take?" Hitler replied: "My dear Rall, I don't know." That surprised him. "I thought our leaders knew everything," Rall recalled, "and suddenly I realised they didn't know anything" ...
... Rall flew against all the major Allied fighters and had a high regard for the Spitfire and the Russian Lavochkin 7 ..., but he always considered the USAAF's P-51 Mustang to be supreme.
... An American aviation historian ... commented: "He occupies a special niche among the celebrated military pilots of the twentieth century" ...
... Rall became the Chief of Staff of Nato's 4th Allied Tactical Air Force and after serving as the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe he was appointed the Chief of Air Staff ... before retiring in 1975 ... In 2004 he wrote ... Mein Flugbuch (My Flightbook)

Ancient Brit I expected more from you. It is well known that the Local waits for someone else to post it then post their own version of said story.

Correct Perdido. They also need time to dumb down the story a little...

Yeah the obit for TT is written quite well.

Correct Perdido. They also need time to dumb down the story a little...

... would be interesting to read his book.

... I'd like to read his book.

... I will also have to purchase the book.