During his career, Hans Ulrich Rudel flew over 2530 missions (around 400 of his sorties were flown in a Fw-190 fighter plane during which he was credited with 11 air victories) and destroyed: 150+ various artillery pieces, 519 tanks, around 1000 various armored vehicles, 70 landing crafts, 2 Lavochkin La-3 fighters, one Ilyushin Il-2 Stormovik and sunk the Battleship "Marat", 2 Cruisers and a Destroyer. Rudel was responsible for such huge damages to the Red Army that Joseph Stalin himself put a price of 100,000 rubles on his head. He flew more than 600,000 km and used more than 5,000,000 liters of fuel. Rudel dropped 1000s of kg of bombs, fired over 1,000,000 machine gun rounds, over 150,000 20mm rounds and over 5,000 37mm rounds. Rudel thought that the Lend-Lease American tanks were easier to kill than the Soviet T-34s, but he hated their machine guns, because once he was shot down by one. He was shot-down 32 times and performed 9 rescues. Lost part of a leg in battle. Rudel was an outstanding pilot with experience, who loved to fly and destroy. He hated to take home leave or sick leave and even when he got his leg amputated in 1945, he was not depressed since he could still do what he loved - fly and destroy (even against the Fuhrer's orders). During his career, Hans Rudel showed remarkable power, toughness, fearlessness, unparalleled determination and arrogance- but none of his photos show any impact of the hardship of war on his face. His personal bravery was beyond belief and his place in the annals of military history thoroughly deserved, although it is important to remember the words of an American Protocol-Officer who absolutely, correctly named Rudel "the typical Nazi Officer". He was awarded the Knights Cross to the Iron Cross First Class with Golden Oakleaves, Swords, and Diamonds- the greatest and highest decoration in military history. Although he flew the Fw-190 first, he will always be remembered as the Stuka Man. Rommel once said that Rudel was equal to one entire division as far as destruction went!!!