Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: drraymond@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Darrell Raymond) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Hartmann and Marseille Message-ID: <1990Dec15.012414.13801@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Dec 90 01:24:14 GMT References: <1990Dec11.015903.26972@cbnews.att.com> <1990Dec12.031305.10254@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: drraymond@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Darrell Raymond) In article <1990Dec12.031305.10254@cbnews.att.com>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>From: Paul Stafford >> N.B.:IMHO, the best aerial shooter was Hans Joachim Marseille, who, with only >>152 kills was much lower on the totem pole, typically used only 10 or so >>*shells* per kill, and Henry adds: > He was > unquestionably in a class by himself in gunnery, however, even if he was > occasionally a bit *too* economical with his ammunition. :-) I'd like to put in a plug for George "Buzz" Buerling (sp?), a Canadian who participated in the defence of Malta. Perhaps not as great as Marseille, but Buerling was reputed to have been able to use few shells, but able to tell how many and where they hit. I think Buerling had around forty kills in total before he himself was shot down.