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Originally Posted by JeffK
After the arrival of Spitfires in Darwin.
Tactics changed and experience grew, 9 kills for nil losses in one day in July, 4 for no loss on one day in August.
Your sources need to be reviewed, only 2 Japanese Fighter losses in the period (what period??)
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Since your post, I see others posting perhaps more familiar with the actual Japanese losses than I (judging by other threads on other fora), but the main point is you seem to be quoting Spit claims, not the actual Japanese losses. I didn't say 2 but rather 3 A6M's; what Hata/Izawa "Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in WWII" p.129 gives as 202 Kokutai losses for March through September 1943. That was AFAIK the only A6M unit involved. The JAAF lost a Ki-43 (see earlier post). There was as I mentioned at one time an Aussie website with the breakdown day by day, claims and real losses for each side, perhaps from one of the other books mentioned in the thread. ISTR it had fewer than 3 A6M's actually downed by Spits over Darwin per J records.
Joe