In short order, he won his first two aerial victories.

Here he claimed his first aerial victory in late summer of 1942.

In over little more than two years he would account for another 157 aerial victories.

This was also Italy's first aerial victory in the war.

During the night of 3/4 July he claimed his first aerial victory.

During his career he claimed 10 aerial victories, all of them at night.

During his career he was credited with 78 aerial victories.

The unit would score 17 aerial victories during the war.

He was credited with 32 aerial victories during the war, all of them against Western forces.

Its first aerial victory claim was submitted on 14 March.

Five days later, he scored his first confirmed aerial victory.

On the Eastern front he had claimed 96 aerial victories.

He claimed his final two aerial victories on 25 October.

He also needed to inform Baghdad of the aerial victory.

He was the group's top air ace with credit for six aerial victories.

At the end of the war the unit had achieved over 90 aerial victories.

It remains the record for the most aerial victories by a pilot in one day.

By then he had been promoted to major and began leading the group in aerial victories.

During his career he is credited with between 19 - 24 aerial victories, all against Western forces.

His final tally of aerial victories during the war was eight.

With 17.5 aerial victories, he was the leading ace from Missouri.

Both sides exaggerated their claims of aerial victories that month.

There he participated in the war's final offensive, though with no more aerial victories.

In this role he was credited with eight aerial victories before training as a pilot.

This was his second aerial victory and his first on the Soviet front.