The Second World War is a tragic history of mankind, but it is also a legend of the storm, in which countless shining warriors were born, such as the "ace pilot" that modern people seem to never be able to surpass. Some of them have achieved fame, some of them have lost their souls, and some of them have stumbled and stumbled halfway.
The "King of Air Combat" of 352 Battles
Erich Hartman
The Number One Flying Ace of the Germans was, of course, Erich Alfred Hartmann, who shot down 352 fighters during his combat career, a butcher in the air, and whose "watch-judge-attack-disengage" tactic broke the rigid air combat pattern since World War I and became a textbook model for the Air Force of World War II. Hartman was most proud of the fact that under his cover and guidance, he never let the wingman down.
Hartman lived until 1993, flew the Me262 jet fighter, was shot down several times during his combat career, landed fourteen times, and was almost killed by an American pilot during his last parachute, but fortunately the other side only gave him a middle finger. From 1925 to 1929, Hartman used to open a clinic in Changsha with his family, and his introduction to flying was taught by his mother.
On the day of the German surrender on May 8, Hartmann still scratched the bullet and shot a la-11 fighter to celebrate the somersault, ending his record of 352. The Wing Commander then gave him a telegram asking him to immediately fly to the Allied camp to surrender, while the Wing stayed where it was to surrender to the Soviets, apparently because Hartmann, who was afraid of "heinous crimes", had killed the Soviets, and the German top brass demanded that "the super aces could not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union".
Hartman and the Wing Commander did not carry out the order, they burned down the airfield, and led the remnants of the army and civilians all the way west, and found the American Armored Division to surrender. But the Soviets still managed to get Hartman from the American army, and in the end the Soviets sentenced him to 23 years in prison, so Hartman's mother wrote a letter to Stalin, but did not hear back. It was not until 1955, when West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer redeemed Hartmann in exchange for economic and trade interests for prisoners of war, and he had only 45 kilograms left.
Returning home that same year, Hartmann's first thing he did was marry his girlfriend of 10 years; he returned to the Luftwaffe, trained in the U.S. Military, and became commander of the 71st "Richthofen" Wing of the West German Air Force. Hartmann retired from the military in 1970 and died in 1993, and in 1997, the Russian government, in order to show favor with Germany, found the Soviet trial "illegal" and Hartman was not guilty.
Master Stuka who inflicts legion-level kills
Hans Ulrich Rudel
Another German ace was the dive bomber pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, whose record was much more powerful than Hartmann, who specialized in air combat, blowing up 519 tanks, 150 cannons, more than 1,000 vehicles, 1 battleship, 2 cruisers, 1 destroyer, 70 landing ships, 2 La-3 fighters, and 1 Il-2 strike aircraft, which was quite powerful.
And Rudel was also a model worker, he almost never stopped serving the Third Reich, 2530 missions in 6 years, an average of 1.2 times a day, no vacation, no rest, no pause. In February 1945, Rudel was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a ground attack, his right leg was blown up, and he was subsequently amputated, but it was not long before he returned to the sky wearing a prosthetic leg, and even volunteered to fly to Berlin in March to rescue the Fuehrer.
After Germany surrendered, Rudel was reluctant to surrender to the Soviets, and he took his men from the Soviet theater to the Us-occupied zone to surrender to the American army, which saved his life. Despite some interrogations by the Allies, Rudel was soon released back to Bavaria, where he not only recovered from his leg wound in the hospital, but also found a job as a contractor in 1946.
In 1948, unable to stand the chaos in Germany, Rudel, a fervent supporter of Hitler, simply emigrated to Spain, during which time he wrote two books, namely "Our Front's View of Germany's Rearmament", "The Dagger of Poking Dreams" (to defend Hillert, believing that the waste officers in the military academies who only learned to eat with knives and forks dragged Hitler's hind legs), and became a close friend of the Argentine populist politician President Juan Domingo Perón, who was engaged in Nazi ideas.
Ruddell defended Hitler for the rest of his life, and he returned to Germany to do business and politics, becoming the head of extremely residual ideas, and raising the flag for the Conservative forces, but he was not successful in that era. Rudell died in Rosenheim in 1982, and although he wrote many books, the most valuable text considered to be his diary during the war years.
Kill the "Ace of the Day" of 301 fighters
Balkholon
Ranked second in the air combat was "Gerhard Barkhorn," who was also known as the "Ace of the Day" because he made 119 sorties without success, but shot down 5 enemy planes in one go on 120 missions. In terms of career record, Balkholon killed 301 enemy aircraft, the only pilot in the world with a record of more than 300 except for Hartman.
Balkhoron was thought to be able to surpass Hartmann, but he was appointed commander of the JG6 Aviation Regiment by the Air Force in early 1945, losing the possibility of continuing to heaven. On his last mission, the Me262 fighter he piloted was held captive by the Allies after the engine stalled halfway through, and after an emergency landing, the war ended lying down. After the war, he joined the Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe) in 1956, retired in 1976, and died in a car accident on 6 January 1983.
Allied Firsts, which shot down 62 aircraft
Kuri Dub
The first soviet ace pilot was Ivan Nikitovich Kozhdubu (Иван Никитович Кожедуб). His record in World War II was 62 enemy aircraft, a record that was no match for the Germans in numbers, but even so, Lieutenant Kuri Dub's number of knockdowns was firmly at the top of the Allied camp.
And in terms of the total number of missions, Kuri Dub did not have the experience of German pilots who flew thousands of sorties, he only carried out 330 missions, 120 air battles, against the fierce Luftwaffe, 62 of which were already very good, and he was the only person in the Soviet army to shoot down jet fighters, and even killed two American P-51Ds because of accidental strikes.
Unlike other pilots who could only fight, Kuri Dub was also a command-level talent, and he once led an air force to help defend Shanghai at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, thwarting the Attack on Shanghai by the Kuomintang Air Force. During the Korean War, the 324th Aviation Division commanded by Kori Dub became part of the "MiG Corridor", inflicting heavy casualties on the U.S. military, and he also personally flew air combat in violation of orders, killing 17 F86s.
In 1985, because of his too straight nature, the bumpy KozhDub finally became a Marshal of the Soviet Air Force, but not long after the bad news of the collapse of the Soviet Union knocked him down, and he died in grief on August 12, 1991.
The "father of Soviet Air Force tactics" who fell to the number 59
Pokreshkin
The second ace of the Soviet Air Force was Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin ((Александр Иванович Покрышкин), and his record was 59 enemy aircraft. During the war, Pokryshkin flew 650 missions, including 156 air battles, although not as good as the German army's record, but in the war Pokreshkin because of his brave style, he has always been vigilant by German pilots.
(Soviet pilots suffered heavy combat damage, and they were more like a kind of consumable, which made many pilots lose their souls before they could accumulate their achievements, such as Pokryshkin's regiment, and only 3 survived until the end of the war, and the sacrifice was quite tragic.) ）
Pokreshkin is also an aviation marshal, although he was more rookie than a rookie in the initial air battle, and even shot down his own bombers, but after surviving and becoming an old bird, Pokreshkin gradually began to "deviant", he constantly studied a variety of tactics against the German army, summed up the "height - speed - mobility - firepower" of the new tactical system, the impact on the Soviet Air Force is quite large, known as the "father of Soviet tactical air combat".
Because of his activity on the battlefield, Pokryshkin became the first person in Soviet history to be awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" three times, before Marshal Zhukov. In addition, the Allies were also quite convinced of him, the United States, France, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, etc. have commended him, Roosevelt even directly said: "Pokryshkin is the best pilot in the war"
In 1972 Pokryshkin became a marshal, in 1979 he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and died in 1985, the Soviet Union and Russia often brought out this marshal in various war commemorations, and named a discovered planet "Pokresh Venus".
(Historically, there are many Soviet ace pilots stuck in the 50 slot, such as Lechkarov, Gulayev, Yevstigneev, Volojekin, Glinka, etc., which have a lot to do with the number of combat missions))
"Perfect Warrior" with a knockdown of 40
Richard Bunge
The first Ace Pilot of world war II in the US army is Richard I. Bong, whose record is 40 aircraft, all created for the Pacific theater, and is called the "perfect warrior" by American society.
Bunge graduated from aviation school in 1942, and the somewhat shy, introverted young man went on to become a U.S. Army Air Force, where he flew a P-38 fighter jet across the Golden Gate Bridge during training. His record on the battlefield was also ordinary at the beginning, and it was difficult to establish a kill record in the mission of escorting bombers in New Guinea for many years. However, in 158 missions, he still achieved the record of shooting down 26 enemy aircraft (5 can not be confirmed).
After returning home to get engaged, Bunge put the head of his fiancée Macaulay on the plane and flew himself with such a huge FLAG; General Kenny, the commander of the Southwest Pacific Air Force at the time, recognized the value of this young ace and gave him a freedom - play as you please! Fly as you want, and fight wherever you want.
This made Bunge completely transform into a "hunter" on the battlefield, and he took the wingman Tom Lynch around looking for Japanese planes to duel, frantically refreshing the record, and the two planes shot down more than 40 enemy planes in total, until Lynch was shot down.
With the accumulation of achievements, Bunge was publicized as a star in the military and became a household name at the time, but unfortunately, on August 6, 1945, Bunge was only 24 years old when he was flying a latest P-80 Meteor jet fighter due to aircraft failure and parachute opening failure. Bunge's P-38 is still lying in a museum in the United States.
The RAF ACE, which did not want to stay in the UK
Britain's more representative ace pilot was John Randall Daniel Braham, who had a record of 29 (plus 31 for sure), and, more embarrassingly, was an American and later not a British citizen.
Brabham was born in rural Massachusetts, usa, the son of a former British pilot who later became a priest. A successful boxer in his youth, Brabham worked as a clerk at The Wigan Police Station in Greater Manchester and later as a bailiff at Lancaster Court, and in 1937, at the age of 17, Brabham joined the British Army in order to get a better future.
Brabham (right) and radar commander Bill Gregory, 1943
Brabham fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940, shooting down 12 enemy aircraft in 2 years, which led to a promotion to lieutenant colonel and further study at the General Staff College, and later joined the Night Navigation Wing in 1944, where he completed 19 aircraft (many of which cannot be confirmed at night), a night record that almost caught up with the 21 "Night Ace" Branse Burbridge.
Brabham's used helmet
During his combat career, Brabham flew 318 sorties, 14 of which were hit by enemy aircraft, 23 by ground air defenses, and three times by his own aircraft for command problems. The most thrilling experience was when attacking a train, because it flew too low, the belly of the plane was scraped off by the roof of the car, but he had to blow up the train before flying back to land.
Brabham's fighting ended on 24 June 1944, when he was surrounded in Denmark by two German Fw190 fighters, forced to land on the beach at 150 miles per hour, and then taken prisoner until the end of the war before returning to freedom.
After the war, Brabham returned to his old career as a colonial police officer, and he was reluctant to return to his home in Leicestershire, England, supposedly because he had been interrogated by Goering in a prisoner-of-war camp and confided in the Germans about Spitfires and ground radar stations, which was condemned by British society and endless questioning by reporters.
But the Royal Air Force was not prepared to let go of this talent, and he himself hoped to return to the blue sky, so he was recalled to the Royal Air Force. Later, feeling that the Royal Air Force was "dead", Brabham agreed to the Canadians' offer, joined the Canadian Air Force and immigrated as a family.
At the age of 48, Brabham, who was already in a high position, resigned because of his opposition to the disarmament decree, died of a brain tumor in 1974, and his body was donated to scientific research according to his wishes, and no funerals and commemorations were held.
"Commonwealth First" that shot down 51
Mamaduq Patel
If you look at the Commonwealth, the best ace pilot is Marmaduke Pattle of South Africa, whose record is 51, but the controversy is relatively large, because he died in Greece in 1941, when the record was 23, and the record of 51 was selected in the 70s.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Mamaduq Patel had only been exposed to older fighters such as the Hurricane and gladiator because of his early death, and his fighting area was in North Africa and the Balkans, mainly helping the Egyptians and Greeks fight Italy. Because the British lost a large number of archives when they fled, Mamadukh's relevant information is not even clear to people at the time, and later British scholars went through the archives in the 1970s and claimed that Mamadukh's true record was 51 (and 40).
On 20 April 1941, Mamaduk took to war with illness, and he piloted the Hurricane fighter against a group of Luftwaffe BF-110s over Athens and Piraeus in Greece, only to be shot down by Captain Theodore Rossivar, squadron leader of the German 26th Destroyer Wing. Mamaduk's comrades saw him crouched on the dashboard and plunged into the Mediterranean with the fighters whose tails were on fire.
A watery Italian hero
Lukeini Franco
The first ace of the Italian Air Force was Captain Franco Lucchini, whose record was 26 (another said 21).
Lucini Franco was the squadron leader of the 84th Squadron of the 10th Squadron of the 4th Fighter Wing in Sicily, also known as the Ace Squadron in Italy, and in honor of the Italian ace pilot Baraka of world war I, they painted on the fighters "F. Baracca" words.
Lukini was a native of Rome who grew up in a railway family. At the age of 16 he learned to play gliders, and in 1935 he successfully joined the Italian Air Force and qualified to fly the following year. During the Spanish Civil War, he engaged the Soviet Air Force and won a record of 5 aircraft, known as Ace Pilot.
Italians do not like to count individual records, often pay more attention to the team record, which makes Lukini's personal record is difficult to be screened out, in fact, his career record if you add the team record will reach as many as 52, too much unclear combat history so that Lukini's results in the future generations are uncertain.
After frequent air battles with the British Spitfire in North Africa, Lukini began to suffer frequent embarrassment, and his backward car was shot down three times in 4 days and seriously injured. Lukini returned to the battlefield in 1943, and on July 5 he was killed while leading a team on a mission to intercept American bombers.
Years are a pig-killing knife
Later, both Italian and British versions of his death were different, with Lukini's comrades saying they disappeared after seeing him shoot down a Spitfire and wound three B-17s. The British said Lukini did wound one B-17, but he was killed by other B-17s.
In 1952, the Italian government suddenly remembered this hero and awarded him the highest honor of the army, the Gold Medal of Courage. In fact, his record has a great estimate of moisture, maybe stronger, maybe weaker, but now it is impossible to say.
French hero in the Royal Air Force
Klosterman
France's first ace was Pierre Clostermann, whose record was 33. However, the British considered his statistical method too "French", according to the British statistics should be 19 (19 single kills and 14 cooperative kills). In addition to these feats, he blew up 72 trains, 225 cars, 5 tanks and 2 torpedo boats, as well as countless ground facilities.
The air combat hero was even more embarrassed than the British two, he was a Brazilian-born Frenchman who wanted to join the French Air Force but was rejected, so he ran to the United States to attend the California Institute of Technology and learned to fly in the United States. In March 1942, at the age of 21, Klostermann graduated from the University, and France had already surrendered.
Unwilling to give his life to Vichy France, Klostermann, who had no choice but to give his life, found de Gaulle's Free French Movement, went to England with his help, joined the Free French Air Force, and received flying combat training from the British Army, before joining the RAF Squadron 341 in 1943. (At that time, the British army formed a flying squadron of 340, 341, 342 and other French volunteers.) ）
After another six months of the "rookie period", Klostermann shot down two advanced German FW-190 fighters in one go, after which he became more and more ferocious, began an uninterrupted attack on the French homeland, and even killed many German V-1 rocket positions.
At the time of the Normandy landings, Klostermann landed on a temporary airfield opened by the Allies in a warplane, becoming the first French army to return to his homeland, which made him a great hero of France in the future. In the ensuing campaign against Germany, Klostermann earned the nickname "Le Grand Charles also means super man" because of his high level of skill and piles of achievements.
After the war, Klostermann wrote a book about his experience, which sold a million copies, and he also won medals from Britain, France, the United States, Belgium and other countries. In 2006, the pilot died in his cabin in the Pyrenees, and a street in Normandy was named after him in his honor.
The "Wild Vulture" of the Chinese Sky
Liu Pugang
In World War II, the Chinese Air Force was the strongest in terms of record, Liu Zhesheng and Liu Pugang, both of whom destroyed 11 enemy aircraft, of which Liu Zhesheng was slightly ahead of Liu Chugang because of his overall record of "11.33".
Liu Zhesheng, a native of Baoding, Hebei Province, studied at the Nanchang Flight School and later entered the Hangzhou Central Aviation School, where he studied with the help of American consultants. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Zhesheng fought in Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu and other places, and he flew fighters such as "Hawker" and "I-16", and Chiang Kai-shek personally awarded him the "Nine-Star Order Medal" and the "First Class Revival Medal".
Liu Chul-sheng's years in Taiwan were not so good, originally his meritorious service and ability were outstanding, and it was only a matter of time before he was mentioned as the commander of the Air Force, but he was suddenly and inexplicably involved in the Liu Gongzhen Corpse Splitting Case, which was known as Taiwan's first strange case, and the police picked up a few pieces of and a few handfuls of dog hair in the courtyard, found some pants from the maid's room, and made a so-called major breakthrough. Coupled with the random rumors in the newspapers and periodicals at that time, General Liu Zhesheng was finally forced to resign himself.
Liu Zhesheng went from a military star to a down-and-out veteran, who could only make a living by pushing ice cream trucks, and later established a dairy business, visiting relatives in Canada in 1990 and dying in the local hospital in 1991.
The deplorable "Flying General"
Liu Chugang was one of the "Four Great Kongs" of that year (Gao Zhihang 5, Le Yiqin 8, Li Guidan 8), known as the "Flying General", his record at first glance is not comparable to foreign, but these achievements were completed in only 2 months with backward fighters and disparities in troop strength. If you have the combat environment like the United States and Britain, I think Liu Pugang has already become a super ace.
For example, in the battle on August 17, 1937, Liu Chugang and three other Hawker 3s met the Japanese 10 aircraft in a narrow road, and Liu Chong went forward to kill the Japanese aircraft. On August 23, in the battle of Wusongkou, Liu fought against 5 Japanese aircraft and blew up the other side. He even thought about the Japanese warships, wounding one of the opposing cruisers.
On October 25 of the same year, Liu Pugang led 3 planes from Jiangsu to Shanxi, because of the light control, Taiyuan Airport was dark and poor communication, which forced Liu Pugang, who was not familiar with the road, to look for a landing in Luoyang, and the result was that the fuel of the 3 machines was net halfway. After covering the landing of the wingman, liu Pugang, who had no landing conditions because of the loss of flares, chose to take the plane to land in the dark of night, and as a result, he crashed into the Kuixing Tower in Gaoping County and died at the age of 24.
Want to be the "Zero Battle Demon King" of "Kamikaze"
Nishizawa broadly
The japanese pilots were also quite famous in World War II, and their best ace was Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (Nishizawa Hiroyoshi), with a record of 87.
Nishizawa Hiroyoshi was a native of Nagano Prefecture in the interior of Japan, and Nishizawa, who was born in Yagane (The roof of Japan), had a height of 1.73, far more than the Japanese at the time, but he weighed only 63 kilograms, which was extremely thin. According to his comrades-in-arms, Caesar should not have been on the battlefield at all, he was a man who should be lying in the hospital room. Others think that Nishizawa's personality is too depressed, like an exiled sinner, and he is always treated badly because of this, and has few friends.
On the battlefield, Nishizawa is broadly known as the "Zero Battle Demon King", a title not given by the enemy, but brought up by Nishizawa's comrades-in-arms first- the sick man on the ground is a crazy, bold, chaotic, thrilling and delicate pilot in the sky, and others can only watch him complete those impossible operations with a cold heart.
The most amazing thing is the look in Nishizawa's eyes, he has a perverted ultra-long-range vision, he can be the first to detect enemy aircraft in extremely distant places, and make timely preparations. Nishizawa was always able to fly the Zero quite thrillingly, which made him constantly refresh his record in the Pacific, and later the commander of the 11th Air Fleet, Lieutenant General Kusaka, gave Nishizawa a saber with the inscription "Martial Arts".
On October 25, 1944, Nishizawa was ordered to escort a group of "kamikaze raids" in the Philippines (this was the second time that Ōnishi Takijiro used kamikaze to fight, the last time on October 19, which sank the aircraft carrier "Princeton"), they were attacked by 20 Hellcats, Nishizawa destroyed 2 of them, covering the "kamikaze" to sink the "St. Louis" aircraft carrier.
The "kamikaze" seemed to stimulate Nishizawa, and when he returned to the base, he was a little world-weary, and actually applied to his superiors to participate in the "kamikaze special attack", which of course would not be approved to the ace pilot, who took his tattered landline, loaded it with a bombshell, and handed it to a captain to make a kamikaze. Nishizawa and the others were transported to Luzon to change into new fighters, but the weather was unpredictable, and the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier "Bumblebee" caught their transport aircraft, and only 2 "Hellcats" blew up the Japanese aces to ashes, and there was no place to die.
Finland's White "Phantom"
Aino Yutilainen
Although Finland played the side ball in World War II, they also gave birth to the most brilliant ace pilots, and Warrant Officer Eino Ilmari Juutilainen's 94 victories can even rank ahead of Japan, and his nickname is "Illu", which means "illusory, illusory".
Utileinen started out as a mechanic in the Navy, but because of his vision of the Red Baron Richterhofen, he joined the Finnish Air Force and underwent arduous flight training, which at that time placed great emphasis on single-aircraft combat capabilities, which gave them a lot of advantages in the melee with the Soviet Air Force.
After the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Utileinen took off in the cold winds of December, and the first battle encountered 3 Soviet DB-3 bombers, he unusually calmly shot the recoil machine gunners one by one, and then beat them all the way to pieces... Later, when dealing with the Soviet I-16 fighter, Utilein was also extremely calm, maneuvering the B-239 fighter (the F2A "Buffalo" Fuffalo Finnish name) to continuously shoot down the Soviet fighter.
In 1943, after receiving the new German Bf-109G-2, Utileinen became so emboldened that he called the previous fighter a "gentleman" and now a "killing machine." When dealing with extremely strong strike aircraft such as the Il-2, he also summed up the experience of "flank attack - shooting wing roots", but it is difficult for anyone to shoot in the air with the same accuracy as he did.
After the war, Utillinen was awarded the Finnish Cross, the highest honor of the Finnish Army, the Order of the Menaheim, but he chose to retire in 1947 and has been working in commercial flight ever since, before his death in 1999.
"Romanian captain" who played all over the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Germany
Cantacuzino
Finally, there was the Romanian ace pilot Constantine cantacuzino, who, as a vassal pilot, achieved a record of 53 aircraft against the Soviet Union.
Cantacuzino was born in Bucharest in 1905 to an old aristocratic family, so he had a lot of spare money to participate in various activities, such as playing electric motors, car racing, playing tennis, and he was the Romanian captain of the 1933 Ice Hockey World Trail.
Cantacuzino enrolled himself in a flight school for 30,000 francs, then began his life as a flyer, flying around Europe and competing in the 1939 air competition. By the time war broke out, Cantacuzino had become an old bird that flew across Europe with 2,000 flight hours.
In 1941, Cantacuzino, who was the chief pilot of the Romanian National Air Transport Company, broke away from his comfortable job and entered the Air Force's 53 fighter squadron, but his service period ended only from July 5 to October 31, during which time he killed three DB-3s and one I-16, as well as two unverified results.
In 1943, Cantacuzino managed to return to the army, and on April 26 he was sent to the 58th Flying Squadron as a squadron leader and assigned the Bf-109G fighter, during which time he created nearly 40 fighters that shot down enemy aircraft, both American and Soviet aircraft. On 23 August 1944, when Romania broke away from the Axis and joined the Allies, Cantacuzinoton began to turn against the Germans, killing a large number of German warplanes in order to defend Bucharest and Transylvania.
When investigating the results of the war after the war, people suddenly found that Cantacuzino was a World War II freak, he destroyed the I-16, Yak-1\3\7\9, La-3, La-5, Il-2, DB-3, Spitfire, P-38, P-51, Bf-109, FW190 and many other fighters, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, Germany and many other fighters beat him.
Romania, in the Soviet sphere of influence, did not treat the hero kindly, the government confiscated the territory and property of the nobles, and Cantacuzino soon broke up, and he managed to escape to Spain to settle before he was imprisoned. The local Romanian refugee community bought him a plane to earn a living at the air show.
The brother-in-law later married an actor 's wife ( fourth marriage ) , but in 1958 Cantacuzino died of a medical malpractice , and the wife also emigrated to the United States.
So that's it, there are many more ace stories like this, which could have been told in more detail, but that would have been too long, and it can only be said that every person in the war is a legend, they fight in suffering, and their lives are not just cold numbers.