The Victories of Luftwaffe Experten (Ost) - New Considerations

[Broncazonk]

Dear Andrey,

I am asking questions that pertain to the Luftwaffe's Experten. Most specifically, I am not trying to insult the Soviet Union or its air force.

Here is another example of what I am talking about.

Russian Combat Methods in World War II, Department of the Army pamphlet No. 20-230, Washington D.C., November 1950, written by Generaloberst Erhard Rauss, Commander, Fourth and Third Panzer Armies.

The Red Air Force - Chapter 14 - A Luftwaffe Evaluation

[...] The Russians were in a fair way to lose their last aircraft by this completely futile commitment in detail. True, the Russian Air Force was able to replace the lost planes, but it never did recover from the shock effect of the German fighters. The superiority of German fighters over Russian planes of any type was evident right up to the end of the war.

[...] In conclusion, it may be said that the Red Air Force, although conceived and built up on a large scale, was very primitively trained. Its will to fight, its aggressive spirit, and its mastery of technical aspects left much to be desired. Although constantly superior in numbers to the Luftwaffe, it was always inferior when it came to combat. Usually a small number of German fighters sufficed to clear the skies of Russian planes.

If Generaloberst Rauss's assessment is correct, the mystery remains: why didn't the Luftwaffe produce multiple Experten with 300+ historically verifiable victory claims? And in all honesty, there should be at least one with 500 historically verifiable victory claims.

Once again, the Luftwaffe went east with a core number of fighter pilots who had combat experience in Spain, Poland, France and Britain. And from the very beginning, in 1941, the Russians were putting up poorly-trained (barely able to fly) pilots that were flying vastly inferior aircraft, in astonishing numbers.

When the Japanese tried this it resulted in The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot where, "four Japanese air strikes involved 373 carrier aircraft, of which 243 were lost and 130 returned to the carriers; many of them were subsequently lost when Taiho and Shōkaku were sunk. After the second day of the battle, [Japanese] losses totaled three carriers, more than 350 carrier aircraft, and around 200 land-based aircraft." {For a loss of approximately 40 US navy aircraft lost to enemy action.}

Why didn't the Luftwaffe record multiple Turkey Shoot days?

Bronc