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Allied and Soviet Air Forces Please use this forum to discuss the Air Forces of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. |
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Spitfire
Hello,
has it ever been endeavoured to determine the grand total aerial victory score of the Supermarine Spitfire ? Michael |
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Re: Spitfire
...or is it known how many aerial victories the RAF scored in WW2 ?
Michael |
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Re: Spitfire
John Foreman give a grand total for the ETO in his Fighter Command War Diaries, but there is no total by aircraft type (but you can browse it or his RAF Fighter Command Victory Claims of World War 2 and sum all the victories if you want...). It's a little bellow 11k, I can give you the exact value later.
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Re: Spitfire
Good morning Alfred,
thanks for the hint. Can you tell me that ETO grand total you mentioned ? Does "11k" mean 11.000 ETO kills for the RAF ? Have a nice weekend, Michael |
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Re: Spitfire
Here are John Foreman's numbers (ETO - day and night fighters) :
10,736.5 : 4,779 : 3,785 (air) & 437 : 24 : 642 (ground) |
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Re: Spitfire
Cool, thank you !
Did the Commonwealth record their MTO/CBI/PTO victories separately ? Michael |
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Re: Spitfire
The P-51 scored the bulk of it's victories in the ETO, in a time period where the accuracy of allied claims was higher than it had been earlier. That might make it the highest scoring
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Re: Spitfire
Hello there Gentlemen,
it think I read it in a collection called "FASZINATION FLIEGEN" that the Mustang scored the most kills of all the Allied fighters. Allow me a naive fallacy: according to Tomas Polak
If you break down John Foreman's RAF figure (ETO - day and night fighters) of 10,736.5 to the two main British fighters Spitfire (20.000 planes) and Hurricane (14.000 planes) you arrive at ~6300 possible Spitfire kills
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Re: Spitfire
The Yak-9 continued to be built after the end of the war. According to Wiki, 'only' some 14500 were built during the war.
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Re: Spitfire
Good afternoon Peter,
according to Polak, the Soviet Airforce had 11.000 fighters at the beginning of the war and received 63.000 more during the war. Thus, 14.500 Yak-9's are 19,5% all fighters availabe during the war. 19,5% of 40.000 kills is ~7800 kills. Michael |
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