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Re: Spitfire
....it produced aces from more different nations than any other aircraft type. Check this out:
SPITFIRE TOP ACES BY NATION
1. Great Britain: James Johnson 36,92
2. Canada: George Beurling 31,33
3. South Africa: Adolph Malan 29,75
4. Ireland: Brendan Finucane 29
5. New Zealand: Colin Gray 27,2
6. Greece: Ioannis Plagis 16
7. Australia: Paterson Hughes 15,17
8. France: Jean-Francois Demozay 13
9. USA: John Lynch 13
10. Rhodesia (independent from 1965 onwards): William Maguire 12
11. Norway: Svein Heglund 11,33
12. Poland: Eugeniusz Horbaczewski 11
13. Denmark: Kaj Birksted 10,5
14. Czechoslovakia (1918-1992): Otto Smik 9
15. Belgium: Yvan Du Monceau 8
16. Netherlands: Hugh Godefroy 7
17. Soviet Union (1922-1991): Sergey Martynov 6
There is also a Spanish guy named Juan Lario who flew Spitfires for the Soviet Union.
According to Tomas Polak, he scored 27+8sh kills in WW2 but I don't know how many of them were scored in the Spitfire. Who does ?
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