Thread: Saburo Sakai
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Old 20th October 2016, 14:31
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Re: Saburo Sakai

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Originally Posted by knusel View Post
Hello Flavio,

I counted the claims on the list with the ideogram knowledge:
- 4 Destroyed in the China War
- 54+19 shared Destroyed in WW2
- 1 Probable in WW2
- 1 Damaged in WW2
- 7+1 shared On the ground in WW2

I suppose, the 17Aug1945 claim is a shared ground kill, isn't it ?
Do the ideograms tell us how many pilots took part in the shared kills ?

Cheers,

Michael
Dear Michael,

the victory of 17th May 1945, according to the kanji, was "Shared" + "damaged".

The kanji for "on the ground" are the first two ideograms on 3 March a PBY officially "on the ground" + "damaged".

Flavio
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