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Old 27th April 2017, 15:27
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list

Hello Juha,

thanks for your interest.
  • Rechkalov's P-39 score of 52+4 and Gulayev's P-39 of 32 stem from George Mellinger's "Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2". But you find a full list of their totals here:
http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/r/rechkalv.htm
http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/g/gulaev.htm
  • That website lists only 3 of Klubov's 19 shared kills, thus his P-39 might be higher than 28.
  • It lists 27+2 kills for Boris Glinka (all in P-39) whereas Tomas Polak in "Stalin's Falcons" attibutes a total of 29+2sh to him.
  • Arkhipenko has 24,5 P-39 kills and thus narrowly misses a rank in the top ten list.
  • Kamozin's P-39 score of at least 23+6 is new to me. It would add up to more than 25,00.
  • Trud has a total of 25,33 but his first kill was scored in a Yak-1. Thus he narrowly misses a rank in the top ten.
Kind regards,

Michael
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