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Re: JG5 on 26Apr42
Hi.
Since virtually no controllable information on the VVS ever appear for serious evaluation these attempts to compare claims vs losses are at best futile.
Until the (now) Russian, ex-Soviet, archives are open for study these comparisons are and sadly will be a waste of time, and one will only have small parts of information of dubious quality and most probably, as we have seen earlier, with a rather heavy political twist to it, even 70 years on in time.
It is regrettable, and I hope that we will be able to use the archives as a real source in the future.
It is of course a very relevant question to what extent the records are influenced by politics or shear fear - the same question the students of the air war in the west constantly ask with regards to german records.
Regards,
Andreas B
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