Allied air superiority in 1944: P-47 D Razorback decided it?

[Juha]

Originally Posted by GuerraCivil

...Still in 1943 the sky over Northwestern Europe was quite effectively controlled by Luftwaffe and by that time it was yet able to inflict more aircraft losses to enemy than it suffered. For example the famous JG 26 made in Western front 380 air victory claims with the price of 158 pilots lost and even in 1944 it was still able to claim 668 air victories (the highest annual score of the unit during the war) for the loss of 300 pilots. ...

Eh how those figures showed that LW or even JG 26 inflicted more a/c losses to enemy than it suffered? Fighting over areas controlled by Germany means that LW lost many more fighters than pilots and victory claims were just claims, i.e enemy losses were in reality smaller than the claimed number.

Juha