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MARSEILLE, HANS JOACHIM

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MARSEILLE, HANS JOACHIM
(1920 - 1942) German ace serving principally in North Africa, he had 158 kills in 482 sorties. Marseille was awarded a Knights Cross with diamonds, rated by Galland as the war's best pilot, killed bringing in his crippled Me-109. Very rare war-date A.L.S. adding rank as First Lieutenant and Squadron Commander", 1p. large 8vo., "Afrika", July 22, 1942 to a friend wishing his family, whom Marseille knows well, good health, and enclosing a photograph. Fine. Marseille would be killed less than three months later.