LW003 “Oberleutnant Gunther RALL”

Born in 1918, Gunther Rall is the third most successful fighter ace in history still alive today. He shot down a total of 275 aircraft… all but 3 of them on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. He flew an amazing total of 621 combat missions and was himself shot down 8 times and wounded on 3 occasions! All his victories were scored in the Messerschmitt 109.

After the war he rejoined the “new” Luftwaffe and rose to the rank of Generalleutnant retiring in 1975.