It is a fact of history, that those who really hunkered down in those trenches and sweated with their blood and tears are often overlooked by historians (let alone those mainstream beings) in their impact on actual history. We all love the spitfires and 109s from the battle of the channel for their pure superiority, letting alone that it were the hurricanes who fought the majority of airfights between the brits and the germans. Comparing the stats of the Hurricanes and the 109, I cudos those Hurricane pilots in the early days, as much as I cudos those Luftwaffe pilots in the latter days, taking in fact the majority of pilots of the Luftwaffe were ridicolous overwhelmed in numbers in the late years of WW2... This explains those rumours about superiority of german pilots, as well. While allied pilots were send to frontside hoildays on the allied side of WW2, those german veteran pilots were not given that luxurary. Those vetarans were (because of lack of manpower about recruits) ensentenced to do another shift of duty (and another one after that...) until they either died in combat, or they subdued in breaking down (or even died in fatigued combat fights). Of course they did build a story of superiority about them, because superior they were. Not about their enemies: The allied forces. But about superiority about men like us in the modern times. Men which have not yet been forced to make sacrifies all around...
