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Originally Posted by Johannes
Hi Guys
we all known of the British "ace" Douglas Bader's claims, and lack of actual truthful victories. Post war he published a book about his "aceness" but it was proposed that a National hero should not pat tax for his efforts. Yet Stanford Tuck, and Johnny Johnson were honest British aces.
If the truth was known Günther Rall and Gerhard Barkhorn would be the top aces, with top medals, not merely other Schwerter winners.
Stotz I feel was led astray by Hahn, yet just as Stotz leaves the seen, another great "over-claimer" begins his run of unbelievable claims........Emil Lang, so somewhat endemic within the Staffel, but I do not believe all pilots even within this Staffel were doing such things.
These "super over-claimers" sure seemed to cause inflation when it came to medals.
Keep Well
Johannes
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At the same time that Lang (and Rudorffer) were making spectacular claims, there were, in II/JG 54, guys like Albin Wolf and Hugo Broch that were very VERY accurate claimers.
Paulo