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Walter Krupinski

1920 - 2000

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Walter Krupinski (11 November 1920 – 7 October 2000) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II and a senior West German Air Force officer during the Cold War. He was one of the highest-scoring pilots in the war, credited with 197 victories in 1,100 sorties. He was called by his fellow pilots Graf Punski (Count Punski) due to his Prussian origins. Krupinski was one of the first to fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter in combat as a member of Jagdverband 44 (JV 44—44th Fighter Detachment) led by Adolf Galland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Krupinski is the 1,156th most popular military personnel (down from 1,022nd in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Russia (down from 858th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walter Krupinski ranks 1,156 out of 2,058. Before him are Günther Lützow, Tōdō Takatora, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Alexander von Linsingen, Shurahbil ibn Hasana, and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon. After him are Johanna Wolf, Arthur Percival, Wolfgang Lotz, Callicratidas, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, and Mineichi Koga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Walter Krupinski ranks 169. Before him are Osvaldo Cavandoli, Mohamed Oufkir, Lazar Mojsov, Eduardo Mondlane, Jorge Pacheco Areco, and Jean Carmet. After him are Giuseppe Colombo, Bert Williams, Viveca Lindfors, Lassie Lou Ahern, Josip Manolić, and Stan Ockers. Among people deceased in 2000, Walter Krupinski ranks 116. Before him are Hendrik Casimir, Domingos da Guia, Bernhard Wicki, Aristidis Konstantinidis, Claude Autant-Lara, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. After him are Patrick O'Brian, Efstathios Chorafas, Oleg Yefremov, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Kalle Svensson, and Yevgeny Khrunov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Walter Krupinski ranks 935 out of 3,761. Before him are Oskari Friman (1893), Viktoria Brezhneva (1907), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734), Mikhail Yangel (1911), and Konstantin Feoktistov (1926). After him are Franz Overbeck (1837), Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Emil Wiechert (1861), Andrey Myagkov (1938), Vadim Bakatin (1937), and Vasily Lanovoy (1934).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Walter Krupinski ranks 82. Before him are Vasily Petrov (1917), Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Mikhail Katukov (1900), Andrei Shkuro (1887), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), and Dmitry Utkin (1970). After him are Fyodor Apraksin (1661), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Ivan Tyulenev (1892), Pavel Grachev (1948), and Nikolai Nebogatov (1849).

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