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Old 27th July 2016, 18:15
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Re: Polikarpov I-16 top ace - Vasilii Golubyev ?

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Originally Posted by knusel View Post
Dear Stukapilot,

thanks for that helpful input.
I didn't know that airaces.narod.ru bases on Bykov's work.
I've studied the list you attached and found that the listed kills add up to 17+16sh, not 17+15sh as indicated.
At home, I merged the victory dates of that list together with the dates given by Polak, Maslov and airaces.narod.ru. => The sum ist 48+18sh, which indicates that some dates might be wrong or not confirmed.

I wish you a splendid weekend,

Michael
u'r right, knusel, mr. Bykov might make a typo mistake, and it seems that's the common failing of many russian books. but fundamentally, i have to say that his work is much more reliable than Polak's. lemme take an example, in Polak's book, a soviet pilot named Vasiliy Naydenko scored 99, ahead of Kozhedub, Pokryshkin and Rechkalov. while Bykov's research shows his victories were 1+6 in spain, 0+4 in finland and 5+11 in the great patriotic war, so 6+27 claims in his career. it's a quite smiple arithmetical addition but hard for me to undestand y those two records differ so greatly. to talk turkey, i'm on the side of Bykov
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