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SPAIN

World War II

LUFTWAFFE

NAME                             VICTORIES       UNITS                  COMMENTS

Hevia Alvarez-Quinones, Gonzalo     12           15.(Span)/JG 51
Cuadra Medina, Mariano              10           15.(Span)/JG 51
Gavilan Ponce de León, José Ramon    9           15.(Span)/JG 51
Sanchez-Arjona Courtoy, Fernando     9           15.(Span)/JG 51
Aldecoa Lecanda, Vincente            7           15.(Span)/JG 27
Arango-López, Dámaso                 7           15.(Span)/JG 51        1.
Salas Larrazábal, Ángel              7           15.(Span)/JG 27        +6+1 SpCW
Azqueta-Brunet, Luis                 6           15.(Span)/JG 51
Fernandez Peńa, Lorenzo Lucas        6           15.(Span)/JG 51
Meneses Orozco, Bernardo             6           15.(Span)/JG 51
Sanchez-Tabernero de Prada, Manuel   6           15.(Span)/JG 51        2.
Valiente Zarraga, Francisco          6           15.(Span)/JG 51
Alós Herrero, Antonio                5           15.(Span)/JG 51        3.
Arango-López, José                   5           15.(Span)/JG 51        4.
Manuel Perez Muńoz, Julio            5           15.(Span)/JG 51


Barańao Martínez, Emilio             4           15.(Span)/JG 51
Bengoechea Menchaco, Manuel          4           15.(Span)/JG 51        5.
Cavanilles Berreterre, José          4           15.(Span)/JG 51
Llaca-Alvaréz, José                  4           15.(Span)/JG 51
Mateos Recios, José                  4           15.(Span)/JG 51
Bayo Alessandri, Carlos              3           15.(Span)/JG 27        +11  SpCW
Calleja, Rafael                      3           15.(Span)/JG 51
Ferandiz, Carlos                     3           15.(Span)/JG 51
Galarza-Sanchéz, Felippe             3           15.(Span)/JG 51
Guibert, Javier-María                3           15.(Span)/JG 51        6.
Martinez Vara del Rey, Miguel        3           15.(Span)/JG 51
Beriaín Arbilla, Franzisco Javier    2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Escalante de la Lasta, Gerardo       2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Escudé Gisbert, Ramon                2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Frutos Rubio, Juan                   2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Ibarreche Arriaga, Esteban           2           15.(Span)/JG 27        +7 SpCW
Pérez-Gonzáles, Alejandro            2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Robles, Andres                       2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Salvador Diáz-Benjumea, Julio        2           15.(Span)/JG 51
Allende-Isasi, Javier                1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Arango-Lopéz, José                   1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Arraiza Goni, Javier                 1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Bengoa Cremades, Fernando            1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Chicharro Lammamié de Clairac        1           15.(Span)/JG 51
de Pena, Juan                        1           15.(Span)/JG 51
García-López Rengel, Arístides       1           15.(Span)/JG 27        +17  SpCW
Garret-Rueda, Federico               1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Lacourt Macia, José Andres           1           15.(Span)/JG 27
LaCruz Cuerva, Carmelo               1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Lafuente                             1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Luca Tena y Laso, Ramón              1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Medrano de Pedro, Luis               1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Navarro Peréz, Antonio               1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Pareja-Núńez, Enrique                1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Recasens Garriga, José               1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Rifolles, José Maria                 1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Rosello Simonet, Juan                1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Serra Alorda, Salvador               1           15.(Span)/JG 51        +4 SpCW
Serra Pablo-Romero, Carlos           1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Teixidor Rodrígues, Carlos           1           15.(Span)/JG 51
Urgiola, Antonio                     1           15.(Span)/JG 51

Busquet Sindreu, Javier              1  [0+1]    15.(Span)/JG 51        7.

1.	Dámaso Arango-López is sometimes credited with 4 vistories (Wood, Tony: Combat Claim & Causalties, Allied & Axis 1939-1945, http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/tonywood.htm).
2.	Manuel Sanchez-Tabernero de Prada is sometimes credited with 5 vistories (Magnus, Allan: Air Aces Home Page, http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/airaces1.htm).
3.	Antonio Alós Herrero is sometimes credited with 6 vistories (Anders, Gerhard - Held, Werner: Stíhací eskadra JG51 /Jagdgeschwader 51 Mölders/, Mustang, Plzeň 1996).
4.	José Arango-López is sometimes credited with 1 vistory (Anders, Gerhard - Held, Werner: c.d.).
5.	Manuel Bengoechea Menchaco is sometimes credited with 1 vistory (Anders, Gerhard - Held, Werner: c.d.).
6.	Javier-María, Guibert is sometimes credited with 2 vistories (Wood, Tony: c.d.).
7.	Some sources present, that Javier Busquet Sindreu achieved one shared victory with Ángel Salas Larrazábal and Carlos Bayo Alessandri on 14 October 1941 (Polák, Tomáš: Španělské flamengo nad ruskými pláněmi, in Plastic Kits Revue, No. 15, 1993). But archive materials show that Spanish pilots achieved three individual confirmed victories (Hptm. Carlos Bayo Alesandri, Oblt. Esteban Ibarreche Arriaga and Maj. Ángel Salas Larrazábal) on 14 October 1941.

Messerschmitt Bf 109F-2, 15. (Span) / Jagdgeschwader 51.

Sources & Literature

Anders, Gerhard - Held, Werner: Stíhací eskadra JG51 /Jagdgeschwader 51 Mölders/, Mustang, Plzeň 1996.
Bernad, Denes: Heinkel He 112 in Action, Aircraft No. 159, Squadron/Signal Publications, Carrollton,Tx 1996. [N]
Polák, Tomáš: Španělské flamengo nad ruskými pláněmi, in Plastic Kits Revue, No. 15, 1993.
Polák, Tomáš: Esa meziválečného období, Španělská předehra bratrovražedná, part one, in Plastic Kits Revue, No. 43, 1995.
Prien, Jochen - Rodeike, Peter - Stemmer, Gerhard: Messerschmitt Bf109 im Einsatz bei der III. und IV./Jagdgeschwader 27, Struve Druck, 1995.
Prien, Jochen - Stemmer, Gerhard - Rodeike, Peter - Bock, Winfried: Die Jagdfliegerverbände der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945 - Teil 6 Tielband I Unternehmen "Barbarossa" Einsatz im Osten 22.6. bis 05.12.1941, Struve Druck 2003.
Shores, Christopher: Air Aces, Presidio Press, Novato, California 1983.
Skulski, Przemyslaw: Asy Przestworzy 1939-1945, Ace Poblication 1995.
Skulski, Przemyslaw - Bargiel, Janusz - Cisek, Grzegorz: Asy Frontu Wschodniego, Ace Publication 1994.
Toliver, Raymond F. - Constable, Trevor J.: Fighter Aces of the U.S.A., Schiffer Military History, 1997.
Turón Victor: Die blane Staffel, Les Espagnols sur le front Est, in Aéro Journal, No. 11, Fev-Mars 2000.
Flores, Santiago A.: Angel Salas Larrazabal - A Fighter Ace in Two Wars., WWII Ace Stories, http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/aces.htm
Gustavsson, Hakan: Biplane Fighter Aces from the Second World War, http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/aces.htm
Wood, Tony: Combat Claim & Causalties, Allied & Axis 1939-1945, http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/tonywood.htm.
Magnus, Allan: Air Aces Home Page, http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/airaces1.htm.