>At one point early in his captivity, a KGB officer trying to get
>information about the Me 262 out of him got tired of being
>stonewalled* and hit Hartmann across the face with a cane. Hartmann's
>response to this—keep in mind that this was in an interrogation
>room being guarded by armed goons—was to pick up his chair and
>knock the interrogator clean the fuck out with it.

>There's more, but it would just be piling on at this stage. Point is,
>Erich Hartmann was also a badass.

Can't really argue with that, indeed.

>He didn't make his last flight at
>83, true, in large part because he only lived to be 71.

Which, you know, has to be acknowledged as a valid excuse.

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