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Look forward to whatever you post on those a/c, Craig.

 

That tow truck looks so cool, but it's way too neat for the typical trucks around here.

 

And that Porsche Carrera will be a jewel.

Ken

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Yes, "Pips" Priller. He was one of the few Luftwaffe aces to attack the Normandy beaches. He was immortalized in the "Longest Day"" movie. This was his mount from the Battle of Britain. I did get to meet Adolf Galland at a dining-in we had a Bitburg. Galland was our after dinner speaker. He was some muckety muck in the West German Luftwaffe in the 1970s.

Ken

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On 1/5/2025 at 6:22 AM, Canute said:

He was some muckety muck in the West German Luftwaffe in the 1970s.

So I had to go look that one up Ken...so in a good way or was he arrogant?I have heard from past interviews he was somewhat easy to get along?🤨

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On 1/5/2025 at 4:22 AM, Canute said:

Yes, "Pips" Priller. He was one of the few Luftwaffe aces to attack the Normandy beaches. He was immortalized in the "Longest Day"" movie. This was his mount from the Battle of Britain. I did get to meet Adolf Galland at a dining-in we had a Bitburg. Galland was our after dinner speaker. He was some muckety muck in the West German Luftwaffe in the 1970s.

 

3 hours ago, Javlin said:

So I had to go look that one up Ken...so in a good way or was he arrogant?I have heard from past interviews he was somewhat easy to get along?🤨

He wasn't actually in the West German Luftwaffe, they wanted him but the US Airforce sent word thru NATO representatives that he was unacceptable... The Germans could have chosen him anyway, but decided not to...

 

It is the only appointment of WWII Luftwaffe officers that was interfered with by the new NATO, (read US hierarchy) This was due to alleged sympathies with neo-nazi organizations... He became a consultant to the Argentine Airforce of Juan Peron.... Eventually returning to Germany and starting a consulting organization which eventually gained contracts with the West German Luftwaffe... He never held a military rank after WWII...  He eventually became good friends with Douglas Bader and godfather to Bader's son.... And unofficially friends with many US Air Force officers, He was an Anti Nazi, both Goering and Himmler tried to get him imprisoned or assassinated during the war...

 

He was an affable chap, very easy to get along with and one of the greatest fighter pilots to ever fly... An ace in both propeller fighters and jets... While with the Argentinian AF he flew the Gloster Meteor, he was reported to have said that if the Germans had anything like the meteor engine in the Me-262 it would have been the greatest fighter jet of all time....

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