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By now we count a JU-87 of Otte and a Romanian AAR ME-109 . Both Germans , Axis and Allies overclaimed sometimes too and came up with exagerated victories, no doubt about it . However Germans by nature have a tendency for order and precision, theirs sound lots closer to reality than those produced by Soviet propaganda when most of the German claims can be verified . I can't speak for JG 5 nor forthe maintainace issues of JG 52 writting off fighters due to non combat issues is not my research area .

PS : talking about same propaganda and politics , no other nation arrested
revoked medals, HSU titles , demoted ranks and sent their pilot and
airmen heros on the post WWII era to NKVD camps such as the Vorkuta's type
convicting them of treason, espionage, crimes against USSR etc as the
Stalinist Soviet Union did , all this just because these airmen runned out
of luck landing in German prison camps some of whom barely survived
Auschwitz, Mauthausen ,Buchenwald,etc . Rehab took years sometimes and
those who were executed could not be brought back to life later on . On one
occasion Beria himself forced a HSU pilot's wife to sleep with him and
his puppets at Lubjanka ,as cover up for the actions demoted the pilot,
sent them to a flying club in Far East thus provoking numerous shows
in order to stage an arrest ,demote and revoke him the HSU title .

Beside his HSU title this pilot personally received from Tito the highest
Yugslavian award for bravery while escorting him back from Bari.

This very brave pilot died at 41 in a mental clinic in Odessa .

I am certain you don't hear all this for the first time .