Hello there Gentlemen,
it think I read it in a collection called "FASZINATION FLIEGEN" that the Mustang scored the most kills of all the Allied fighters.
Allow me a
naive fallacy: according to Tomas Polak
- the Soviet air force had ~91.000 fighter aircraft
- 16.000 (17,5%) of these being Yak-9's
- the Soviet air force scored 40.000 kills
- 17,5% of 40.000 is 7.000
Thus, 7000 kills for the Yak-9 seem possible, but hardly any of the high-scoring Soviet aces scored heavily in that plane. That might indicate that the Yak-9 grand total is considerably lower. Also the La-5 grand total might be much higher than the calculated ~4400, because there were so many high-scoring La-5 pilots.
If you break down John Foreman's RAF figure (ETO - day and night fighters) of 10,736.5 to the two main British fighters Spitfire (20.000 planes) and Hurricane (14.000 planes) you arrive at ~6300 possible Spitfire kills
- plus Spitfire kills in the MTO/CBI/PTO
- plus Spitfire kills by the Americans and Russians
- minus the RAF ETO kills scored by the Nightfighters
- minus the RAF ETO kills scored by other types.
Michael