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  1. Oscar-Heinrich "Pritzl" Bär (pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈbɛːɐ̯]; 25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean theatres.

  2. Oscar-Heinrich " Pritzl " Bär ( pronounced [ ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈbɛːɐ̯]; 25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean theatres.

  3. Bär enlisted in the Luftwaffe and following advanced training was accepted as an Non-Commissioned Officer Pilot. As World War II began in Europe, Heinz Bär held the rank of Unteroffizer (or Corporal) with the 1. Staffel, I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 51 which flew the Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters.

  4. Bär, a Saxon with a strong accent, joined the Reichswehr in 1934 and transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1935. Serving first as a mechanic, then as a pilot on transport aircraft, he was informally trained as a fighter pilot. He claimed his first aerial victory in September 1939 on the French border.

  5. He and his wingman, Ofw Heinrich Höfemeier, were escorting a crippled He.111, when they run into a group of 18 Tupolev SB bombers [39 SBAP (Skorostnoy Bombardirovohchnyy Aviatsionny Polk—high speed bomber aviation regiment) and 10 SAD (Smeshannaya Aviatsionnaya Diviziya—composite aviation regiment)].

  6. Oskar-Heinz (Heinrich) "Pritzl" Bär (pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç bɛːɐ̯]; 25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. [1] Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in all major German theaters of the war, including the...

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  8. In the morning of April 29, 1944, Major Heinz Bär in his Fw 190 A-7, led 27 other Fw 190s from II./JG 1, in the first attack against the American bombers, heading for Berlin. At 10:46 Bär shot down a P-47 Thunderbolt - his victory No 201 - and three minutes later he downed a B-24 Liberator. "Pritzl" Bär belongs to the most well-known and ...

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