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Frank,
Thanks. Just one more reason why my wife thinks that my "crazy internet-friends" are wonderful in aiding and abetting my interest in lost causes....P-39s, Brewster Buffalos, Wirraways, Fairey Battles, Bristol Blenheims....ahhh, the list is endless...

Michael,
Yes, the Aleutians was my first thought - way back in thread #16, that in compiling a mammoth list of all lists, the originator parked the small number of Aleutians P-39 claims in with CBI (and perhaps hasn't gotten back to update it).
Though as Frank says....campaign-wise, it was totally different, and as Frank's data above indicates - 5 is too small a number for Aleutians P-39 claims.
Its only recently that I pondered the Soviet P-63s and the Manchuria campaign of 1945, and looking back at old posts, way back in post #30 alfred.Monzat was of a similar opinion.
Its all theory and supposition, though, as to what the original compiler of the list you're referring to, actually intended. Perhaps, if you are in contact with him, you could ask? I have Tomas Polak's "Stalin's Falcons" but it's not a practical task to look through the entries (done in a Shores' Aces High style) for specific P-63 claims in Manchuria August 1945.


Regards,
...geoff