Johannes
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Originally Posted by Johannes
In my opinion no claims for the man. Lets face it, it's based on his hearsay only.
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It could be true. But it well may be that he claimed several victories, even if not 38. Why? Because of a high number of claims made by the units of Lfl. 1 in Courland in early months of 1945. The total numbers of victory claims I had posted above are from daily reports of Ia Heeresgruppe Kurland. These are official figures.
And there are more examples of high number of claims made on several occasions. On 23 February 1945 thirty (!) victories were claimed (26 reported initially and in a later report corrected to 30)
No doubt these totals include not only claims made by fighters, but also those made by ground-attack pilots. Nevertheless, they allow to draw a conclusion. There were some pilots in JG 54 and SG 3, of whose successes we currently know nothing. So why Nitsch couldn't be one of them?