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Originally Posted by Jochen Prien
... the Luftwaffe's claims were widely exaggerated both with respect to the number of ships sunk or hit and their respective size. ...
Jochen Prien
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From years of reading, it seems that airmen's estimates of the sizes reports ships were hardly ever accurate. This seems to apply to reconnaissance crews and to anti-shipping strikes. Naval aviators seem no better than land-based ones either and all countries are as bad.