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I was told by someone on the board that the RLM didn't use camera footage to credit victories but only for the purpose of pilot training, Is that true?
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The paucity of GC installations on fighters already cited would seem to confirm that GCs were installed only in special circumstances such as examples for gunnery instruction. It also seems to have been employed in some instances for Propaganda-Kompanie (PK) useage -a specific example would be Hans Philipp (206) shooting down a couple of Sov AC which was used in
Die Deutche Wochenschaw newsreels.
The extra weight -though not significant- would have been an unwelcome drag on performance (esp. to the likes of Prof Willi Messerschmidt) when the overstretched Jagdwaffe was doing everything in its power to survive a multi-front war against superpowers. Also devoting scarce resources to producing tens of thousands of cameras and film/processing/analysis was a luxury the 3rd Reich could not afford.