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Originally Posted by PMoz99
you've proven nothing except the relevant records can't be found.
Start ridiculing the numbers when you can PROVE otherwise
Peter
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Sorry Peter but the numbers are the thing that must be proved. Historians are supposed to work on the basis of evidence, as much of it as they can find, and there is clear evdience that, overall, claims in aerial combat are far higher than documented losses. If follows that not everyone got what he said/thought he did and the relatively few "aces" who accounted for the bulk of the aircraft shot down are likely to have been wrong quite often — humans may even tell lies sometimes, or so I've heard. One can reasonably question the totals credited to Hartmann, Johnson, Sakai, Bong, Kozhedub et al and still recognise that they were extraordinarily successful pilots.