A Costly Victory   by Stan Stokes

Gunther Rall, who attained 275 confirmed aerial victories, was the third highest scoring ace of all time. In Stan's dramatic painting Rall is about to have a mid-air collision with a Lagg-5 during the Battle of Kursk on the Eastern Front. Rall would survive this collision and continue to chalk-up victories until the end of the war. Rall flew about 800 combat missions and missed nearly a year of flying when he suffered a broken back.