Originally Posted by Baron rouge
First duty of a good leader is allways to take care of his wingman, apparently this was not Closterman's way of doing things, but rather use them as a bait to have easy kills. He lost a lot of number 2's.
A good few of the high scoring Luftwaffe
Experten were proudest of the fact they never lost a wingman rather than the high scores they racked up in many hundreds of missions.