RSI ANR Aerial victories

[keith A]

Reading this article

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2016/0...-repubblicana/

I noticed the claim that ANR pilots shot down 265 enemy aircraft from December 1943 until April 1945.

This source

http://www.igleize.fr/aces/ww2rsi.htm

Seems to indicate a tally of around half that number. Post war research reduces the number a lot more (not unusual for any air force in WW2).

My own reading by the experts in this field would tend towards the latter tally but I am willing to be contradicted.

The article does seem to be a bit of an attempt to make the ANR more potent than evidence would suggest. This is not to decry the Italian pilots who flew in the face of trememdous odds.

best regards

Keith