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Re: Stepan Ivanovich Kretov - Il-4 ace
Knusel,
I would not pay too much attention to the number of 'kills' that certain pilots claimed. You would be shocked to see how far they can be from the truth. Some pilots' reliability is under 20(!) % or less, no mater how 'big' aces they were based on their tally and biography.
In short: without doing REAL research on the lost enemy aircrafts in order to compare them to certain pilots' claims, these numbers do not have too much historical value. They are still full of speculation, error and fiction. These 'kill-statistics' can be OK for a video game, but not for historical research. All depends on what your goal is.
Gabor
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