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Re: 109 pilot claim ? for B24 on 25/3/1945
Hallo again
As far as I know a junior grade outranked ONLY a senior rank in leadership in the air. It did NOT give the junior rank the rights to claim victories for other scorers, certainly not senior ranks anyway.
As far as experience is concerned, I have NOT checked the JG 53 volumes for any clues about this. At the time of the present topic, the two individuals had exactly the same number of victories. See Priens list.
I find it very hard to understand that Göbel received credit for this Liberator if he was not involved with the victory in one way or another.
Although NOT stated in the book, Göbel may have been in the air as well and received credit for something known in the West as HSS.
Cheers
Stig
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