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Re: Australian Spitfires
Hello
in Osprey's Spitfire V aces by A. Price there is an analyze on the Darvin battles, claims and the the losses as the participated AFs (RAAF, IJNAF and IJAAF) recorded them. That's only for the major raids IIRC. Being at work cannot give details but Aussies seemed to have overclaimed rather heavily.
For F4F please refer the excellent The First Team and The First Team at Guadalcanal by Lundstrom. Claims checked against Japanese records, in appendices info on Japanese formations and tactics, on USN tactics etc. Really excellent books. Only small complain I can made is that in the First Team there might be some underestimanation on the effects of USN AA.
Juha
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