[George Hopp]

"It would be interesting to see a good analysis, but attempting to compile a reasonably accurate wartime total would be a massive, and thankless, task."

Amen to that sentence, Graham. As can be seen from the above comments, if anyone did take the time to do something like this, there would not be thanks, but complaints that this-or-that incident was not actually a shoot-down, but a force-down, or any one of a million other things that invalidated the data.