[Laurent Rizzotti]

It is fairly possible that partisans miscounted, as do most units when counting enemy losses... overclaiming is not limited to fighter pilots or bomber gunners. It is also possible that the number was also increased by soviet-era sources. But this was expected. According to French books almost all battles between French partisans and German troops ended with the Germans taking higher losses, even when the French were defeated. German archives and graveyards tell the contrary, as will be logical with the Germans forces having better weapons, training and organization.

What surprised me was not that I found only 7 losses to sabotage on the day of the attack according to the Soviet, it was that I found other losses to the same cause just some days before. I guess that if five aircraft were destroyed by sabotage three days before, security will be higher. So I wonder if the dates in GQM are correct.