Kurt Knispel

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kurt Knispel (20 September 1921 - 28 April 1945) was a Sudeten German Heer panzer loader, gunner and later commander, and was the highest scoring tank ace of World War II with a total of 168 confirmed tank kills with the actual number of tanks destroyed, although unconfirmed, being as high as 195. He is counted with Johannes Bölter, Ernst Barkmann, Otto Carius and Michael Wittmann as being one of, if not the, greatest tank aces of all time.