I don't think it's the author goal to top Eagles over the Pacific works. They are more research works while Stout's books are more casual reads.
People know how much I hate casual reads... when they are not well researched and repeat faulty "facts" and other fairy tales and therefor are no more interesting than airport novels. But I would not consider Stout's book like that as I found them reliable if not complete on the topic they covers. I hope people reading his books will cross the bridge to research works and more costly books and help the authors we love survive.
And not to mention that more complete books on the 352nd FG are rare (to say the least)... thanks to some awful beings who like to collect everyone of them... and are proud of it:
But that's another topic.