"Jagdgeschwader" 52 (JG 52) (52nd Fighter Wing) of the Luftwaffe, was the most successful fighter-wing of all time, with a claimed total of more than 10,000 victories over enemy aircraft during World War II.
 It was the unit of the top three scoring flying aces of all time, Erich Hartmann, Gerhard Barkhorn and Günther Rall.
 The unit flew exclusively with the various versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 throughout the war.
Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March 1919 – 8 January 1983) was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow "Luftwaffe" pilot Erich Hartmann, the two people to ever exceed 300 confirmed victories.
 Barkhorn joined the "Luftwaffe" in 1937 and completed his training in 1939.
Jean Marie Dominique Navarre (8 August 1895 – 10 July 1919) was a French aviator during World War I.
 As one of the pioneer flying aces, he was credited with twelve confirmed aerial victories and fifteen unconfirmed ones.
William P. "Willy Irish" Driscoll (born March 5, 1947) is a retired Commander in the United States Navy.
 A Naval Flight Officer (NFO), Driscoll and his aircrewmate, Naval Aviator Duke Cunningham, became flying aces during the Vietnam War, the only naval aircrew to do so (along with three United States Air Force pilots), and they remain the Navy's most recently minted aces.
 Driscoll received the service's second-highest decoration, the Navy Cross, for his role in a 1972 dogfight with North Vietnamese MiGs.
Amir Nachumi (Hebrew: אמיר נחומי‎ ‎ , born 1945) is a retired Israeli Air Force Brigadier General who in the course of his career shot down 14 enemy aircraft, making him one of Israel's top flying aces.
 He scored 7 aerial kills in the F-4 Phantom II during the Yom Kippur War, 7 in the F-16 Fighting Falcon in fighting over Lebanon, and participated in Operation Opera, the 1981 raid that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
260a Squadriglia was Italy's first naval fighter squadron.
 It served during the last year of World War I, from November 1917 to November 3, 1918.
 It operated Macchi seaplane fighters over the northern Adriatic Sea.
 During Italy's final offensive, it flew overland missions to support Italy's army in its victory over the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
 The squadron had three pilots become flying aces while serving with it.
The list of World War I flying aces from Lithuania, at the time a part of the Russian Empire, contains two names, both flew with the Imperial Russian Air Force:
While Switzerland remained neutral during World War I, three of its citizens served in other nations' air forces and became flying aces.
The following Syrian pilots became flying aces by scoring five or more confirmed aerial victories while flying combat against the Israeli Air Force.
Major Adriano Visconti di Lampugnano (11 November 1915 – 29 April 1945) was one of Italy's top flying aces of the Second World War, shooting down between 10 and 26 enemy aircraft.
 He was awarded with four "Medaglia d'argento al Valor Militare" and two "Medaglia di Bronzo al Valor Militare "in action"".

Question: Which of the top three scoring flying aces of all time died on 8 January 1983? 
Answer: Gerhard Barkhorn