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Originally Posted by marsyao
Laurent,the top Sovie ace's score were 62 kills
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Yes, sorry. My memory was faulty (I had 82-83 kills in mind).
I was just wondering why the author gave the number of 80.
The French article is not giving enough data to justify this number. And as I said before the general writing of the article was similar to revisionism. But I have not read the original article (and can't).
AFAIK, what we can do now to compare the claims of a WW2 pilot to real losses is to divide the claims into 3 categories:
1) victim identified
2) target identified but escaped
3) unidentified target, most of the cases falling in this category as most claims were in big battles and overclaiming is common there
First category should count as 1 kill, second as 0, third should be counted as 'shared' (let's say we know German pilots claimed 12 kills and shot down 6 planes really, each kill will give 0,5 points for each kill).
So we will have a probable score number.