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Re: The Victories of Luftwaffe Experten (Ost) - New Considerations
It is highly unlikely. Service histories of Soviet warplanes, tanks, etc. are well documented from the factory gates to their loss. Especially from 1943. The Soviet loss records do not lie, because they are the prime documents which help to identify missing and recovered aircrews based on reported engine numbers, AC serial numbers. (We also saw plane recovery where we already knew what the IL-2 engine number should be prior to digging it out - and it was a 100% match to the Soviet loss-report which pointed to that location.) And most importantly the same sets of reports confirm some Axis pilots' claims to over 90%, while for only 20, or less % for others... But this information has been on this forum for many years now.
Experten stories are only 'cosmetics' which cannot hide the massive overclaim rate of some pilots let it be in the East, or in the West.
Gabor
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