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Only battle wounds kept Gerhard Barkhorn, history’s second-ranked fighter pilot, from becoming the all-time ace of aces. Bailing out of a stricken fighter over open water is no picnic in the best of circumstances. Over the English Channel in late October 1940, it was bloody dangerous. Twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Gerhard Barkhorn had crash-landed his Messerschmitt Me-109E …
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