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Re: Ivan Shamanov
I do. I'm a passionate collector of top-aces-by-plane.
The ace with the most A-20 kills (6) might be the Canadian Gordon Raphael.
Mellinger writes that Ivan Shamanov had 8 kills but doesn't specify how many of these were in the A-20. In another post we agreed that Shamanov more likely flew the Il-4 for his successes. Now I wonder if any Soviet pilot could have surpassed Raphaels record (even despite we know that Soviet bomber pilots weren't actually credited with the kills of their crew).
Cheers,
Michael
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