[kalender1973]

Hi,

according soviet sources(documents as records from regiment, divisions etc) Kozhedub shot down 62(or 63) german planes. On the other hand the modern russian researchers claimst, that e.g. Pokryshkin shot down some 44 planes and not 59+ as officialy known. It is only the state of the documents from russian military archivs. The other question how many german planes realy was downed.
In the second part of GPW it is common trend that the shared victory not often filed by soviet pilots. The reason for this is the soviet granting system of ordens or similars. The personally claims has more weight. Due the Kozhedub start his carrier in the second half of 1943, he did not have any shared victories. The other reason in his case, that from the summer 1944 he serve in 176 GIAP, one of two soviet 100% hunter figther regiments. In this regiments the pilots did not like the shared victories( especially in the second part of GPW)

Best regards