I saw an interview with Adolph Galland and was fascinated to hear his accounts as a combat pilot. He described an encounter with what he thought was a flight of FW109s. They were in fact a new Soviet Fighter - later identified as LA5's. He was the only German pilot in his flightgroup to survive that encounter! He had the utmost respect for the later Russian planes and their pilots. I found his opinions concerning the various allied/Axis ac very balanced and informative.
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