FROM BOMBER TO Wild Boar

AFTER A STELLAR PERIOD AS A DISTINGUISHED GROUND-ATTACK EXPONENT, HANSJOACHIM ‘HAJO’ HERRMANN PIONEERED THE LUFTWAFFE’S SINGLE-ENGINED NIGHT FIGHTER TACTICS. CHRIS GOSS TELLS HIS REMARKABLE STORY

PILOT PROFILE ‘HAJO’ HERRMANN

A Ju 88A-5 of 8./KG 30 seen at Gerbini in 1941. The two crewmen in front were shot down over Plymouth on November 23, 1941.
ALL CHRIS GOSS

It was relatively rare for a World War Two bomber pilot to make the leap to fighters… but that’s exactly what happened with Hans-Joachim ‘Hajo’ Herrmann.

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