Jagdflieger unconfirmed victories and official confirmation of claims

[marsyao]

Originally Posted by Boris Ciglic

Figures for April 1941:
at least 61 claim for 47 shot down, 7 severely damaged, 2 slightly damaged and an Fi 156 forced to land although undamaged. Of these 61, at least 3 claims remained unconfirmed although in each of these cases Yugoslav aircraft was actually shot down.

hi, Boris, one of important reason for overclaim was misjudge the damaged enemy aircrafts for those shoting down, and for different time and different theatre, the accuracy of claims could be vastly different even for the same units.
Besides, are you sure those none of those Yugoslavia aircrafts were shot down by ground fire or shot down by Italian ?