Saburo Sakai

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by knusel

Hello Leonard,

• That makes a kill-loss-ratio of the Americans against the Japanese of ~5:1.
• Thus, if we ignore the shot-down Commonwealth planes we might expect that the scores of the American top aces were five times higher than the scores of the Japanese top aces.

Michael

There is no reason to expect that. It is quite possible that in hypothetical "Airforce A", a few pilots will achieve very high scores while the rest achieve little or nothing. In "Airforce B" (which, incidentally, is much larger and far better trained and equipped), very many pilots achieve a victory or two but no individual achieves a huge number. "B" nevertheless achieves the highest overall total.