The following is a list of Spanish Civil War flying aces.
Name | Nationality | Service | Claims |
---|---|---|---|
Joaquín García Morato | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 40 |
Lev L. Shestakov | Soviet Union | Spanish Republican Air Force | 2.5 (in Spain; 39 career) |
Sergei I. Gritsevets | Soviet Union | Spanish Republican Air Force | 6.5 approx. + 11 shared |
Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 24 |
José María Bravo | Spain | Spanish Republican Air Force | 23 |
Manuel Zarauza Clavero | Spain | Spanish Republican Air Force | 23 |
Manuel Vázquez Sagastizábal | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 21 |
Leopoldo Morquillas Rubio | Spain | Spanish Republican Air Force | 21 |
Pavel Vasilievich Rychagov | Soviet Union | Spanish Republican Air Force | 20 |
Mario Visintini | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 19 |
Arístides García López | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 17 |
Alexander Osipenko | Soviet Union | Spanish Republican Air Force | 17 + 34 shared |
Ángel Salas Larrazábal | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 16 |
Mario Bonzano | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 15 |
Brunetto di Montegnacco | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 15 |
Werner Mölders | Germany | Condor Legion | 14 |
Guido Presel | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 13 |
Vittorino Daffara | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 13 |
Wolfgang Schellmann | Germany | Condor Legion | 12 |
Harro Harder | Germany | Condor Legion | 11 |
Andrés García La Calle | Spain | Spanish Republican Air Force | 11 |
Manuel Aguirre López | Spain | Spanish Republican Air Force | 11 |
Adriano Mantelli | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 10 |
Peter Boddem | Germany | Condor Legion | 10 |
Rodolphe de Hemricourt | Belgium | Nationalist Air Force | 10 |
Abel Guides | France | Spanish Republican Air Force | 10 |
Guido Nobili | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 9 |
Andrea Zotti | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 9 |
Otto Bertram | Germany | Condor Legion | 9[1] |
Wilhelm Ensslen | Germany | Condor Legion | 9 |
Herbert Ihlefeld | Germany | Condor Legion | 9[2] |
Walter Oesau | Germany | Condor Legion | 9 |
Reinhard Seiler | Germany | Condor Legion | 9 |
Giuseppe Cenni | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 8 |
Enrico Degli Incerti | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 8 |
Herwig Knüppel | Germany | Condor Legion | 8 |
Anatoly Serov | Soviet Union | Spanish Republican Air Force | 8[3] |
Hans-Karl Mayer | Germany | Condor Legion | 8[4] |
Frank Glasgow Tinker | United States | Spanish Republican Air Force | 8 |
Jan Ferák | Czechoslovakia | Spanish Republican Air Force | 7 |
Giuseppe Majone | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 7 |
Wilhelm Balthasar | Germany | Condor Legion | 7 |
Kraft Eberhardt | Germany | Condor Legion | 7[5] |
Walter Grabmann | Germany | Condor Legion | 7[6] |
Horst Tietzen | Germany | Condor Legion | 7 |
Emilio O'Connor Valdivieso | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 6 |
Jose "Pepe" Larios | Spain | Nationalist Air Force | 6 (and 5 probable) |
Rolf Pingel | Germany | Condor Legion | 6 |
Kurt Rochel | Germany | Condor Legion | 6 |
Herbert Schob | Germany | Condor Legion | 6 [7] |
Francisco Tarazona Torán | Mexico | Spanish Republican Air Force | 6 |
Gilberto Caselli | Italy | Aviazione Legionaria | 5 |
Georg Braunshirn | Germany | Condor Legion | 5[8] |
Gotthard Handrick | Germany | Condor Legion | 5[9] |
Wolf-Heinrich von Houwald | Germany | Condor Legion | 5 |
Wolfgang Lippert | Germany | Condor Legion | 5 |
Günther Lützow | Germany | Condor Legion | 5 |
James Peck | United States | Spanish Republican Air Force | 5 |
Joachim Schlichting | Germany | Condor Legion | 5 |
Willi Szuggar | Germany | Condor Legion | 5[10] |
Hannes Trautloft | Germany | Condor Legion | 5 |
Božidar "Boško" Petrović[11] | Yugoslavia | Spanish Republican Air Force | 5 |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ including 3 unconfirmed
- ^ including 2 unconfirmed
- ^ Simonov, Andrey; Bodrikhin, Nikolai (2017). Боевые лётчики — дважды и трижды Герои Советского Союза. Moscow: Фонд «Русские Витязи», Музей техники Вадима Задорожного. p. 156. ISBN 9785990960510
- ^ including 3 unconfirmed
- ^ including 2 unconfirmed
- ^ including 1 unconfirmed
- ^ including 1 unconfirmed
- ^ including 1 unconfirmed
- ^ including 4 unconfirmed
- ^ including 1 unconfirmed
- ^ Bozidar Petrovitch at dalnet.se