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Re: Soviet victory claims before 22 VI 1941?
Soviet aerial claims v Japanese losses in Nomonhan War:
The most common total for Soviet claims seems to be 660, (for example
Stepanov "Air Warfare in the Khalkin Gol", or Pages of Russian Military
History), though other estimates have appeared, (589 in Bergstrom/Mikhailov "Black Cross Red Star").
Actual Japanese losses are given variously as:
-164 of which 90 were combat losses (by Stepanov, though he mentions lack of detail and possibility of combat writeoffs among the other 74 in his source, which he doesn't name, and he doesn't mention AAA)
-"around 100" (Japanese Monograph No. 144, Military History
Section HQ AAF Far East [Japanese Monographs are a series of campaign histories of the Japanese forces written by Japanese officers for the US occupation force after the Pacific War]),
-by counting up individual incidents and monthly statistics in "Nomonhan" by Coox, I count around 115, including some mentioned instances of AAA and combat/operational losses, but it seems a large majority of the 115 were air combat losses. Coox's sources were Japanese archives and interviews with Japanese participants.
Joe
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