I am writing this book for the youth who come after us, for they will one day be the judge of our actions. I dedicate it to my dead comrades, because they did the most of all of us. And if I associate another goal with this book, then it is this: I would like to show that each of us has been given the fate in our own hands, whether we want to be shopkeepers or soldiers, whether we want to enjoy life, or disregard personal happiness before the thought, which takes us in the small boat of our being into the eternal stream of history. Ernst Udet "Air Armament Master General, Generaloberst Ernst Udet died on November 17, 1941 from the consequences of a severe wound he sustained while testing a new weapon. This ended a fighting life that knew only one goal - the strengthening of Germany's air force. With Ernst Udet, the German nation lost Richthofen's most successful fighter squadron, his shining example, the German aviation weapon of a courageous and purposeful pioneer. That's why I fulfilled the will of the Leader and the supreme commander of the armed forces and bestowed the name "Udet's fighter" on his orders squadron". Thus will the memory of one of our greatest men of air weapons be immortalized for all time." Hermann Göring, Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich and Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force