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Re: Saburo Sakai
Dear all,
referring to the score of Japanese aces, we all know that the overclaiming is very high and accuracy is very low. However just for statistic purpose we can have a look to what was official credited. In my opinion one of the most "accurate" source (apparently based on official documents, not memoirs....) is the book "Heroes of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force" Model Art no.439.
Here, there is a detailed list of Sakai's victories (see attach) that summarizes 55 individual claims + 19 shared (WW2 only).
I think this could be the score we have to use for compare Sakai's victories to those "officially" credited to the other Aces (Japanese or not).
Of course the verified list is another story...
Flavio
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