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Hans Joachim Marseille the fighter pilot was trouble - but if he was trouble to his Luftwaffe superiors then he was more than trouble to the Allied fighter pilots of the Western Desert. It was here that he found both his mark and his fame. Robin Schäfer tells the extraordinary story of Germany’s rebellious Top Gun of North Africa.
Hans-Joachim Marseille scores another victory over an RAF aircraft in his Me 109 ‘Yellow 14’;Hans-Joachim Marseille, the ‘Star of Africa’, wearing his Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds
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WAR IN THE AIR | SECOND WORLD WAR
