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Originally Posted by Jim P.
The bottom line is everybody overclaimed for any number of reasons...
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..while its not terribly scientific - and I don't like the terminology -'severe overclaimers' - personally I think its about time we started saying so where suspected and attempting to re-write the accepted history that we've been fed before its too late - as Dan so ably did. We may bust a few more myths in the process. As Gary says, 'no witness, no claim', yet 'history' still has Hartmann on 352 vics (only 307 'official' claims), Dahl on 128 including 36 Viermots - repeated yet again in the lastest Osprey Duel booklet.. And we wonder why guys like Dulias exist...
.." certain other individuals like Rudorffer have many suspect claims "- I can see it turning into a pretty long list. Loos doesn't appear for one (buy some books Rob!) and is another example ; Lorant currently going back through his interviews from the late seventies has Loos saying - in front of Bracht and Driebe, 'no, never shot down anything in the Ta 152...' .. the accepted 'history' of course is Reschke's...
5th November 2007, 11:14
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