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3rd November 2007, 11:35
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Re: A-hopefully NOT TOO Silly-question RE: 'nachwuchs'
Few years ago together with a friend we did a statistic of killed Spitfire pilots per destroyed aircraft over the war in the Polish Air Force. The result was approx. 47% pilots killed. The same calculated for 1941 summer offensive (June-December) German losses gave the ratio of 86%!!!
It is either ratio of killed Germans was very high or the German loss lists are largely incomplete in case of incidents not involving human losses. I must note here, that I have noticed some cases of Allied pilots claiming seeing parachutes over France that could not have had been attributed to own losses but not present on German lists as well. 
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