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Re: When M.D. Baranov was shot down ?
Thank you Nokose and Paul,
Nokose I agree with you 100%, that one has to be very careful when comparing soviet (and german) victory claims with real losses. In these conditions of heavy air combats with a lot of aircraft overclaiming on both sides was common. And I think propaganda also played a big part. On the soviet side to cover up losses and boost morale, on the german side when aces were coming near a particular number (100 victories, 150...), that was connected with a particular awarded. It seems then overclaiming was even higher...
Baranov is especially interesting as he was one of the early aces claiming multiple victories several times.
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