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Re: Saburo Sakai
You are comparing real US losses with US claims. US pilots did not overclaim as much as Japanese, but still did overclaim.
As for using the overall figures to guess the top aces score, it seems false to me. Thousand of US kills were claimed against Japanese rookie pilots, especially kamikazes in the last year of the war, while Japanese aces were always facing US pilots with a good amount of training. Probable result will be that most American pilots in a given unit may score kills or claims while on the Japanese side a few trained survivors will do most of the claims while the badly trained replacements will often be quickly lost without scoring.
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