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Gnther Schack was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1939 until the end of World War II in 1945. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He was a recipient of the Oakleaves to the Knights Cross in recognition of his combat success. He claimed 174 enemy aircraft shot down, all of them on the Russian front. He survived being shot downtimes during his 780 combat missions. After the war he lived secluded in the Eifel Mountains, and devoted himself to philosophical research.

Gnther Schack was born in Bartenstein, a small town in Eastern Prussia, onNovember 1917 as the son of Dr. Willy Schack and his wife, Dorothea . He studied at the University of Stuttgart and at the RheinischWestflische Technische Hochschule in Aachen. In 1937, when he first tried to join the Luftwaffe, he was categorised as wehruntauglich because of a sports injury earlier in his life.

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