16th October 2017, 15:58
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,853
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Re: Saburo Sakai
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Originally Posted by R Leonard
Sorry . . . revised to include the USMC in above totals . . . Pacific Theaters of operations:
Lost to enemy A/C = 1,222
Lost to enemy AAA = 2,180
Lost Operationally = 1,535
Lost Other Flights (not combat related) = 3,619
Lost on ground or aboard ship = 1,419
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Hello Leonard,
that makes 2.666 US planes lost in aerial combat against the Japanese.
Another naive fallacy:- The Americans scored ~14.000 kills against the Japanese.
- That makes a kill-loss-ratio of the Americans against the Japanese of ~5:1.
- Thus, if we ignore the shot-down Commonwealth planes we might expect that the scores of the American top aces were five times higher than the scores of the Japanese top aces.
- Thus, the Sakai score of 6 suggested by Luftwaffle8 indeed seems more realistic than a score of 64.
Michael
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