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Western victories of Assi Hahn
Petr Kacha's site www.luftwaffe.cz/hahn.html divides his 108 victories into 66 in the west and 42 in the east while Toliver and Constable as well as John Weal in his Osprey books have it 68 + 40. It would seem that the two excessive western victories represent a pair of Spitfires shot down over Dieppe which are mentioned in both Weal titles and Norman Franks' Dieppe book but do not appear in other German claim list for that day.
To make things even more complicated there is a well-known picture of his FW190 A-3 WNr.223 with 61 victory bars. However, Hahn scored his victories No 61-62 in the same fight on May 6,1942 and it was in BF 109 (at least that is what www.thescale.info/news/publish/iiijg2.shtml indicates) so there should be 62 victory bars on the rudder.
Can anyone clear these issues for me? I suppose that Jerry Crandall's book about Hahn has the answers but I do not have it in my possession.
TIA
Jan
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