[keith A]

I have to mention the remarkable amount of fighter pilots who claim two or more kills on a combat where they are themselves shot down. I have often felt that the lack of substantion after the event may have a lot to do with the lack of a combat film. Fighter pilots are by nature high achievers, I wonder if the opportunity to make a claim which can be neither proved nor disproved at the time comes into the combat report.

I am not singling Tuck out for this. His claims in the Battle of Britain seem to be very accurate, however... it does seem an occurrence that repeats itself time and again.