With one exception, all of his air victories were to be over balloons.
Included in this total of 21 air victories are 11 Bf 109s.
He achieved his first confirmed air victory of the war on 3 April 1951.
He was one of the first to score an air victory in his squadron.
Until then he had 6 confirmed and 2 probable air victories.
According to some historians she achieved 11 individual air victories.
He claimed 37 air victories in 79 days during the War's final year.
By the end of 1940, he had amassed 14 air victories.
Only two days later he gained his fifth air victory and became an ace.
It was the first air victory for the airborne radar.
