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I also doubt anyone has ever claimed, except at a pretty low level of familiarity with the topic, that USAAF performance v. the LW at the very start of their confrontations, as in late '42-mid '43 in MTO, was far more successful than VVS performance 2 years into their war.
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I have heard such an opinion more than once, hence my little remark in the Airacobra posting.
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you yourself kindly posted exchange numbers indicating on their face (that is, assuming the majority supposed "unknown" VVS combat losses were mainly in air combat, and making no assumptions about supposed LW loss understatement without specific fact) that seem to show the LW fighters achieved a few:1 ratio against VVS fighters even in 1944, when exchange ratio's had turned against them v. the USAAF.
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With all respect, Joe, but that is another topic. If you want to start a thread on that topic, please do so, and I will provide you with an answer which will explain what you now obviously regard as a contradiction. However, I have examined the reasons to this well-known fact quite recently on this board. In order to avoid straying from the topic (Airacobras in Tunisia), I will confine myself to giving you a hint by referring to my article on the effect of numerical superiority in the air over Normandy in 1944 on the website which is linked below in my post. You can also read this article:
http://www.bergstrombooks.elknet.pl/bc-rs/text.html