was recognized by most as the best shot of the german fighter pilots and was said to be deadly with his aiming ability marseille would tragically die in NUMBER_TOKEN in an engine failure incident and thus we would never get to see how high his kill count would have truly been had he fought until the end of the war but despite this it is because of his high kill count and devastating shooting accuracy that marseille takes the seventh spot on my list today in the number six spot we have yvonne cositube now in this list it was extremely difficult for allied fighters to make it on in the second world war there were only a handful of allied fighters that could truly compete with the top german aces in addition as you will see i have also gone beyond just fighter pilots for this countdown but regardless of these challenges yvonne cosidub has made the cut this soviet pilot was actually not only the highest scoring russian of the war but is actually also credited with being the top scorer in all of the allied forces in the five years that he served and across NUMBER_TOKEN total sorties he is credited with downing a total of NUMBER_TOKEN enemy aircraft while this may seem to pale in comparison to the high-scoring german aces it is important to remember that the soviet fighters were far out-matched by the german bf-NUMBER_TOKENs and fokkerworth NUMBER_TOKENs in addition the soviet training and experience was far behind that of the luftwaffe so cozedube was essentially the underdog for the entirety of his career as a fighter pilot yet despite this he was able to post a very impressive record as a soviet ace leading the allied kill tally for the war it is because of this he takes the sixth spot in my list for the top seven deadliest pilots now at number five get ready to type commenters because this is where i will probably get controversial in this spot the name of this pilot is actually unknown that is because it is the unidentified japanese pilot who dropped the bomb that sunk the uss arizona officially we should probably give credit to lieutenant commander tadashi kasumi who led the flight of level bombers that dropped this specific bomb now let me explain why i have gone with this decision first off we have to remember that this is the deadliest pilots not necessarily the most skilled fighter pilots alone and while i did say at the beginning that high level bombers really couldn't make the list this is a different example instead of a broad area dropped he released his single bomb in a specific pinpointed location on the uss arizona this required an extreme level of skill and execution this bomb would pierce the deck of the ship igniting the ammunition magazines inside resulting in a cataclysmic explosion that ripped the ship in half this explosion from this single bomb not only took out an entire battleship on its own but is estimated to have killed roughly NUMBER_TOKEN of the NUMBER_TOKEN crewmen of the arizona this total number of casualties would account for approximately half of the total killed in the attack on pearl harbor it is because of this high level of skill involved with dropping this bomb as well as the high casualties and damage done that this would take the number NUMBER_TOKEN spot on my list coming in at number four we have the man known as the tank killer hans rudel
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