Top Fw 190 aces

[Johannes]

Hi Michael

The Mustang appears on the KBT papers. These papers give the number of claim, if high 30+ and this Mustang is numbered 103. Don't know where 116 comes from, but probably Ernst Obermaier, he is likely to have got it from Hans Ring. Hans Ring liked to play games, games in which by giving false information he could tell in publications that the source was himself. I have also seen 127 mentioned for Lambert. Lambert was not liked by his superior for some reason, could be a number of things, French surname, over-claiming, being dark haired, who can say. Perhaps Lambert had enough unconfirmed claims to make 116 or 127?

Lambert usually flew with a very high scoring schwarm(like the Nowotny schwarm or Emil Lang schwarm of over-claimers), who stayed behind the rest of the unit to cover their retreat/flight home. This would give them the opportunity to over-claim, but this has not been proven one way or another. His superior I believe stopped him being awarded the eichenlaub. Hopefully the Russian losses experts can calculate the truth from the known claims, which are incomplete.

Kind Regards

Johannes