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Golden oak leaves. Higher then diamonds. Only soldier to receive it. Goering had more "decoration", but it Goering...

Amazing thing: he flew in a Ju 87 until the end of the war (bit of fw 190 too).

Imagine flying 2600 missions in a plane that was obsolete during the battle of Britain and never get shot down by an ennemy fighter from 41 to 45!!! And still fly combat mission after loosing a leg.

Kind of cool that:

Rudel died in Rosenheim in 1982, and was buried in Dornhausen on 22 December 1982. During Rudel’s burial ceremony, two Bundeswehr Phantoms appeared to make a low altitude flypast over his grave, although Dornhausen was situated in the middle of a flightpath regularly flown by military aircraft; Bundeswehr officers denied deliberately flying aircraft over the funeral.