MARSEILLE his last kill

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Originally Posted by Felix C

Is Marseille the German pilot referred to by British ace Johnnie Johnson when he describes a well known ace in North Africa who claimed (and was credited for) a/c of the type which were not shot down and the claims for one one day in particular which exceeded the losses for all causes on the day of the claim?

This is something JJ wrote postwar disputing the massive claims made by German aces and what he considered loose victory credits.

So JJ wrote but he forgot that there were also SAAF losses, he had counted only the losses of the RAF units, IIRC in later editions JJ admitted his error.

IMHO usually Marseille was fairly accurate claimer IIRC only his very late claims were more inaccurate.

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