Analyzing Hartmann's Success

Fighter pilots are the most talented pilots of all time they have to be able to fly at high speeds and keep the plane under control. They are risking their lives trying to take out other planes in the skies but to be called an ace you have to be one of the best of the best. Erich Hartmann wasn't just any any ace he was the greatest ace of all time with a total 825 engagements and 352 confirmed victories. The next best ace of all time the Red Baron only had 80 confirmed victories as a comparison.
Hartmann always claimed he was so good because “I get close… when he fills my windscreen… then you can't miss”. This is the reason he is the only man to ever get to 350 victories. But takedowns aren't the only thing that makes a fighter pilot a great pilot it's how he takes care of his brothers while in the sky and Hartmann did exactly that. His most prised accomplishment was the fact that he never once lost a wingman in all of his missions.
Hartman had a rough childhood as for the fact that germany was in a major depression following WW1. His family found work in china so he spent much of his childhood there but moved back to Germany for schooling once the civil war broke out in china. Back in Germany he joined glider school hoping to become a pilot like his brother who was caught and became a prisoner of war by the British. His first teacher was
They tried to convince him to turn on Germany and become a spy but he refused and was put in solitary confinement on multiple occasions because of it. He did tho tho tell them that if he was free in the west and they offered him a legal contract better than what Germany had to offer he would consider. That never happened and he was officially charged with being a member of a anti soviet group and charged with 20 years of prison years