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Originally Posted by kaki3152
Accoding to the book's author, he only scored 10 individual victories instead of the 26 he was reported to have scored.
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I can confirm completely the author ('s - the book was co-authored with excellent historian Giovanni Massimello) statements. In general most of the "victories" should always be assumed as "claims" whatever the nation involved. For the Italian ones, this is unfortunately even more true due to various circumstances that it would be too long to detail here.
Furthermore, of the ten victories attributed after a close revision, one more is to be subtracted, as the one claimed by Visconti on 14 March 1945 in a frontal attack against the P-47 of Lt. Eddy of 346th FS, 350th FG (ended with Visconti bailing out wounded of his damaged Bf 109 G-10) cannot be confirmed as Lt. Eddy completed the mission successfully and his unit lost no other plane on that day in the engagement that brought to the downing in combat of three Italian (ANR) Bf 109s of 1° Gruppo.
Concerning the other ANR claims of Visconti, those of which I am aware of are:
3 Jan 44 - P-38 claimed in Turin area (not confirmed by the Germans)
11 mar 44 - P-47 claimed in Padua area (confirmed by the Germans)
25 apr 44 - P-47 claimed in Pl.Qu. TA4 (not confirmed by the Germans)
30 apr 44 - P-38 claimed in Forlė area (confirmed by the Germans)
Hope this helps.