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Israel’s Third Highest Scoring Mirage

Posted by Libor Havránek|on September 17 2011, 10:57 AM|in History|in

Jet fighters in which pilots have achieved ten or more kills, are relatively few in the world. Even among aircraft in the Israeli Air Force (Heyl Ha’Avir), some of which were involved in a large number of dog fights, there were only seven that surpassed this number. Included in the seven are Mirages IIICJ No.58 and No.59 (13 kills), No.68 (11), No.62 and No.79 (10), and two IAI Neshers numbers 10 (13 kills) and 61 (12). In the shadows of the better known Mirage Nos 58 and 59 is Mirage No. 68 that was lost in a crash in 1973. In the cockpit of Mirage 68, sat several aces who contributed to it

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Viribus Unitis (Oeffag 153)

Posted by Libor Havránek|on September 17 2011, 06:09 AM|in History|in

Georg Kenzian Georg Kenzian von Kenzianhausen was born on May 11th, 1894 in Linc (or Jičín in Bohemia according to some sources). Following in the footsteps of his father, he chose to be a career officer, and in 1913 he joined Pionierbatallion 2. Within this unit, he served on the Russian Front, and in December, 1914, was wounded. In September, 1915, he was promoted to Oberleutnant. In the winter of 1915/16, he requested a transfer to the air  force, which was granted in February, 1916. After completion of his training, he served as an observer with Flik 24, which operated in the Italian F

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