18th January 2014, 02:45
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Re: German overclaims in the East. Hartmann and others...
Discussion on Japanese overclaimers as well as others including Billy Bishop who may have been the most egregious ever with perhaps 0 of 72 claims Historically Verified (though other more generous researchers suggest as many as 20)!
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Canadian Billy Bishop, holder of the Victoria Cross. With 72 claimed (and generally accepted) victories, he was the top RAF ace in WWI. The late Ed Ferko, one of the most respected researchers in the field, using all surviving German records, letters, memoirs etc., "failed to match a single victory claim made by Bishop against a known German loss for the day, time, and place in question." Nor could the feat the won him the Victoria Cross be confirmed in any German source. See Alex Revell's "Victoria Cross: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft" (1997), 23-27
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